Sanjeev Sahota
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109 appearances
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first heard Aug 2021
last heard Aug 2021
Sanjeev Sahota’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It took a long time for me to actually get my head around how to tell this story.
So I knew I had this story of this character called Meher, who is loosely based on the story of my great grandmother.
But it didn't particularly feel like, I started writing the story, but a few thousand words in, I set it aside.
And this would have been back in 2017.
It didn't feel like a story that was particularly interesting.
necessary or necessary for me to be telling this story and I generally thought that I'd had it with that with that I'd written probably about 8,000 words I thought it's not going to work I'll write something else and then I started writing starting another novel and this novel kind of had this motif of a doppelganger or a double in it and that's always seemed like quite a potent image for
writing this other novel this idea of this doppelganger slowly transmuted into a kind of a version of myself and started writing this story of this character this unnamed character who goes to this room to kind of kind of process his pain on his own sort of
adolescence in a way and then it occurred to me at some point that story I was writing that I'd been writing two years earlier of Meher is actually talking about very similar things with these two characters who are both oppressed by society oppressed in different ways but there's still a degree of subjugation well a great degree of subjugation in their in their lives and actually not only are worthy stories connected by themes of liberation and themes of seeking home but
are both seeking connection.
So not only are the two stories connected by theme, they're also characters who are also seeking connection.
At that point I brought back that story of Meha that I'd been writing two years earlier and put it against this story I'd started writing with some name narrator and realised actually they twine around each other in quite interesting ways and that's how the novel as it is today started to be formed.
Yeah, you're right.
There's three of them.
There's Meher and then her two sisters-in-law, whom she comes to think of as sisters, Herbantz and Gerlien.
And the three of them, none of whom know which husband they're married to.
They live in this small space called the China Room.
And their relationship is one of liveliness, occasional rancour, humour.
They share their pain with each other.
They become kind of a support system.
I feel that obviously there's alliances and allegiances made and a certain degree of betrayal goes on as well.
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