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Author : Anuradha Roy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-01-15
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An Atlas Of Impossible Longing
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Author : Anuradha Roy
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-04-05
An Atlas Of Impossible Longing written by Anuradha Roy and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-05 with Fiction categories.
“This is why we read fiction at all” raves the Washington Post: Family life meets historical romance in this critically acclaimed, “gorgeous, sweeping novel” (Ms Magazine) about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else, marking the signal American debut of an award-winning writer who richly deserves her international acclaim. On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a family lives in solitude in their vast new house. Here, lives intertwine and unravel. A widower struggles with his love for an unmarried cousin. Bakul, a motherless daughter, runs wild with Mukunda, an orphan of unknown caste adopted by the family. Confined in a room at the top of the house, a matriarch goes slowly mad; her husband searches for its cause as he shapes and reshapes his garden. As Mukunda and Bakul grow, their intense closeness matures into something else, and Mukunda is banished to Calcutta. He prospers in the turbulent years after Partition, but his thoughts stay with his home, with Bakul, with all that he has lost—and he knows that he must return.
An Atlas Of Impossible Longing
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Author : Anuradha Roy
language : en
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Release Date : 2009
An Atlas Of Impossible Longing written by Anuradha Roy and has been published by MacLehose Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Families categories.
Beginning in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail, the story is of three generations of an Indian family, brilliantly told, in which a sensitive and intelligent foundling boy orphan who is casteless and without religion and Bakul, the motherless granddaughter of the house, grow up together. The boy, Mukunda, spends his time as a servant in the house or reading the books of Mrs Barnum, an Anglo-Englishwoman whose life was saved long ago by Bakul's grandmother, by now demented by loneliness. Mrs Barnum gives Mukunda the run of her house, but as he and Bakul grow, they become aware that their intense closeness is becoming something else, and Bakul's father is warned to separate them. He banishes Mukunda to a school in Calcutta. The many strands of this intensely fashioned narrative converge when Mukunda, by now a successful businessman, returns to Songarh years after he has been exiled from the only home he knew, to resolve the family's destiny.
All The Lives We Never Lived
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Author : Anuradha Roy
language : en
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Release Date : 2019-10-15
All The Lives We Never Lived written by Anuradha Roy and has been published by Washington Square Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with Fiction categories.
From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and “one of India’s greatest living authors” (O, The Oprah Magazine), a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present day about a son’s quest to uncover the truth about his mother. In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact German, but in small‑town India in those days, all white foreigners were largely thought of as British. So begins the “gracefully wrought” (Kirkus Reviews) story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, who rebels against tradition to follow her artist’s instinct for freedom. Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight against British rule is reaching a critical turn. The Nazis have come to power in Germany. At this point of crisis, two strangers arrive in Gayatri’s town, opening up to her the vision of other possible lives. What took Myshkin’s mother from India and Dutch-held Bali in the 1930s, ripping a knife through his comfortingly familiar universe? Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, Myshkin comes to understand the connections between the anguish at home and a war‑torn universe overtaken by patriotism. Evocative and moving, “this mesmerizing exploration of the darker consequences of freedom, love, and loyalty is an astonishing display of Roy’s literary prowess” (Publishers Weekly).
The Folded Earth
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Author : Anuradha Roy
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-04-24
The Folded Earth written by Anuradha Roy and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-24 with Fiction categories.
From the widely acclaimed author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing, a powerful and triumphantly beautiful novel set in contemporary India, about a young woman forging a new life in the foothills of the Himalayas. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2011 MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE HINDU LITERARY PRIZE FOR BEST FICTION 2011 With her debut novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, Anuradha Roy’s exquisite storytelling instantly won readers’ hearts around the world, and the novel was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and The Seattle Times. Now, Roy has returned with another masterpiece that is already earning international prize attention, an evocative and deeply moving tale of a young woman making a new life for herself amid the foothills of the Himalaya. Desperate to leave a private tragedy behind, Maya abandons herself to the rhythms of the little village, where people coexist peacefully with nature. But all is not as it seems, and she soon learns that no refuge is remote enough to keep out the modern world. When power-hungry politicians threaten her beloved mountain community, Maya finds herself caught between the life she left behind and the new home she is determined to protect. Elegiac, witty, and profound by turns, and with a tender love story at its core, The Folded Earth brims with the same genius and love of language that made An Atlas of Impossible Longing an international success and confirms Anuradha Roy as a major literary talent.
Sleeping On Jupiter
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Author : Anuradha Roy
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2016-09-06
Sleeping On Jupiter written by Anuradha Roy and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with Fiction categories.
Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, a novel about violence, love, and religion in modern India On a train bound for the seaside town of Jarmuli, known for its temples, three elderly women meet a young documentary filmmaker named Nomi, whose braided hair, tattoos, and foreign air set her apart. At a brief stop en route, the women witness a sudden assault on Nomi that leaves her stranded as the train pulls away. Later in Jarmuli, among pilgrims, priests, and ashrams, the women disembark only to find that Nomi has managed to arrive on her own. What is someone like her, clearly not a worshipper, doing in this remote place? Over the next five days, the women live out their long-planned dream of a holiday together; their temple guide pursues a forbidden love; and Nomi is joined by a photographer to scout locations for a documentary. As their lives overlap and collide, Nomi's past comes into focus, and the serene surface of the town is punctured by violence and abuse as Jarmuli is revealed as a place with a long, dark history that transforms all who encounter it. A haunting, vibrant novel that was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and short-listed for the Hindu Literary Prize, Anuradha Roy's Sleeping on Jupiter is a brilliantly told story of contemporary India from an internationally acclaimed writer.
The Earthspinner
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Author : Anuradha Roy
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2022-07-05
The Earthspinner written by Anuradha Roy and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-05 with Fiction categories.
From the critically acclaimed, Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and All the Lives We Never Lived, an incisive and moving novel about the struggle for creative achievement in a world consumed by growing fanaticism and political upheaval. One night, Elango has a dream that consumes him, driving him to give it shape. The potter is determined to create a terracotta horse whose beauty will be reason enough for its existence. Yet he cannot pin down from where it has galloped into his mind. The Mahabharata? The Trojan horse legend? His anonymous potter-ancestors? Once it’s finished, he does not know where his creation will belong. In a temple compound? Gracing a hotel lobby? Or should he gift it to Zohra, the woman he loves, yet despairs of ever marrying. The astral, indefinable force driving Elango toward forbidden love and creation has unleashed other currents. He unexpectedly falls into a complicated relationship with a neighborhood girl who is beginning her bewildering journey into adulthood. He is suddenly adopted by a lost dog who steals his heart. While Elango’s life is changing, the community around him is as well, but it is a transformation driven by inflammatory passions of a different kind. Here, people, animals, and even the gods live on a knife’s edge and the consequences of daring to dream are cataclysmic. Moving between India and England, The Earthspinner reflects the many ways in which the East and the West’s paths converge and diverge in constant conflict. Anuradha Roy breathes new life into ancient myths, giving allegorical shape to the terrifying war on reason and the imagination waged by increasingly powerful forces of fanaticism. An epic that is a metaphor for our age, The Earthspinner is an intricate, wrenching novel about the transformed ways of loving and living in an increasingly uncertain world.
The Earthspinner
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Author : Anuradha Roy
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-09-30
The Earthspinner written by Anuradha Roy and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-30 with Fiction categories.
'A writer of great subtlety and intelligence, who understands that emotional power comes from the steady accretion of detail' Kamila Shamsie, Guardian 'She writes elegantly and intelligently whatever the subject matter' Francesca Angelini, The Times 'A compulsively readable novel' Manil Suri, New York Times 'A horse was in flames. It roamed beneath the ocean breathing fire . . . ' When he wakes up, Elango knows his life has changed. His dream will consume him until he gives it shape. The potter must create a terracotta horse whose beauty will be reason enough for its existence. Yet he cannot pin down from where it has galloped into his mind – the Mahabharata, or Trojan legend, or his anonymous potter-ancestors. Nor can he say where it belongs – in a temple compound, within a hotel lobby, or with Zohra, whom he despairs of ever marrying. The astral, indefinable force driving Elango towards forbidden love and creation has unleashed other currents. A neighbourhood girl begins her bewildering journey into adulthood, developing a complicated relationship with him. A lost dog adopts him, taking over his heart. Meanwhile, his community is driven by inflammatory passions of a different kind. Here, people, animals, and even the gods live on a knife's edge and the consequences of daring to dream against the tide are cataclysmic. Moving between India and England, The Earthspinner reflects the many ways in which the East encounters the West. It breathes new life into ancient myths, giving allegorical shape to the war of fanaticism against reason and the imagination. It is an intricate, wrenching novel about the changed ways of loving and living in the modern world.
Atlas De Una Anoranza Imposible
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Author : Anuradha Roy
language : es
Publisher: Salamandra
Release Date : 2013-02-14
Atlas De Una Anoranza Imposible written by Anuradha Roy and has been published by Salamandra this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-14 with categories.
Hermosa y melancólica, sutil y elocuente, la primera novela de Anuradha Roy narra las vicisitudes de una familia bengalí desde el comienzo del siglo XX por medio de una cautivadora historia que ilustra la inmensa diversidad social y cultural de la India, de sus paisajes y sus gentes, desde la fragante exuberancia de sus jardines hasta el hacinamiento y la miseria de las grandes urbes. En 1907, el joven matrimonio formado por Amulya y Kananbala se instala con sus dos hijos en una amplia casa con jardín en la ciudad de Songarh, antigua cuna de sabiduría y lindante con la jungla. Allí, Amulya funda una pequeña fábrica de medicinas y perfumes confeccionados con plantas silvestres, y se entrega a las comodidades de una vida plácida y rutinaria, solo perturbada por las tensiones que el aislamiento del enclave genera en la familia. Años más tarde, cuando la inocente complicidad de su nieta Bakul con el joven Mukunda -un huérfano sin religión ni casta reconocibles acogido en la casa desde niño- amenace con convertirse en algo más serio, este será enviado a una escuela de Calcuta, expulsado del único hogar que ha conocido. Sin embargo, con el tiempo, los distintos hilos de la historia convergen de nuevo en Songarh. Mukunda, convertido a su vez en empresario, regresa para reencontrarse con el mundo perdido y compartir el incierto destino de la familia. Reseñas: «De un lirismo profundo pero impecablemente ponderado, la escritura de Roy no tiene ni una nota discordante: su sobria belleza es pura música [...].» Time Magazine Asia «La novela de Anuradha Roy atrapa desde el principio hasta el final y cuesta dejarla.» West London Informer «Una conmovedora historia de amor [...]. Una novela para ser degustada por la belleza de su estilo y por su excelente construcción.» Historical Novels Review «Narrada con sensibilidad y destreza [...] la mirada de Anuradha Roy consigue equilibrar lo público y lo doméstico [...] una obra atractiva, sobre todo en su imaginativa exposición temporal.» The Independent «Una novela hermosa y emocionante [...] Una poética carta de amor a la India de antaño [...] Inspirada y evocadora, la escritura de Roy es una delicia.» Financial Times
All The Lives We Never Lived
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Author : Anuradha Roy
language : en
Publisher: Quercus
Release Date : 2018
All The Lives We Never Lived written by Anuradha Roy and has been published by Quercus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with India categories.
"In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. So begins the story of Myshkin and his mother Gayatri, its rebellious, alluring artist-heroine who is driven to abandon home and marriage and follow her primal instinct for freedom. Freedom of another kind is in the air across all of India, and in Germany the Nazis have come to power. At this point of crisis, a German artist from Gayatri's past seeks her out. His arrival ignites passions she has long been forced to suppress. What follows is Gayatri's life as pieced together by her son, a journey that takes him through India and Dutch-held Bali. Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, he comes to understand the connections between volcanic strife at home and a war-torn universe overtaken by patriotism. The scale of Anuradha Roy's novel is matched by its power as a parable for our times. Its depiction of the contrasting ideas of Gandhi and Tagore, of the limits of nationalism when confronted by cosmopolitanism, makes it a spell-binding saga centred on people trying to make sense of their lives"--Provided by publisher.