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Mai was the debut novel of Geetanjali Shree, who later became the first Indian author to win the International Booker Prize (2022) for her celebrated novel Tomb of Sand. Set behind the walls of a house in a North Indian town, Mai follows three generations of women navigating patriarchy, love, and quiet resilience, centered on the seemingly silent yet quietly powerful mother figure at its heart. The novel's English translation won the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in 2002. A profound, layered family saga from one of India's most acclaimed literary voices, now in Urdu.