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The Folded Earth

2012-04-24 Fiction
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Release : 2012-04-24
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 351/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Folded Earth by : Anuradha Roy

Download or read book The Folded Earth written by Anuradha Roy. This book was released on 2012-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Folded Earth

2012-04-24 Fiction
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Release : 2012-04-24
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 335/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Folded Earth written by Anuradha Roy. This book was released on 2012-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desperate to leave tragedy behind Maya seeks refuge as a teacher in a remote Indian mountain village, where she helps a young girl to correspond with a lover until outside forces hijack local elections and violently threaten the villagers.

The Folded Earth

2012-08-07 Fiction
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Release : 2012-08-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 723/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Folded Earth written by Anuradha Roy. This book was released on 2012-08-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. By day she teaches in a school and at night she types up drafts of a magnum opus by her landlord, a relic of princely India known to all as Diwan Sahib. Her bond with the eccentric scholar and her friendship with a village girl Charu seem to offer her the chance of a new life in Ranikhet where lush hills meet clear skies. As Maya finds out, no refuge is remote or small enough. The world she has come to love, where people are connected with nature, is endangered by the town's new administration. The impending elections are hijacked by powerful outsiders who sow division and threaten the future of her school. Charu begins to behave strangely and Maya soon understands that a new boy in the neighbourhood may be responsible for changes in her friend. When Diwan Sahib's nephew arrives to set up his trekking company on their estate she is drawn to him despite herself but his but his disappearances into the mountains evoke painful echoes of the past. By turns poetic, elegiac and comic, The Folded Earth is a many-layered and powerful narrative about characters struggling with their pasts – a novel that poignantly reveals the strange shapes that India’s religious and social conflicts can assume even on distant mountain tops. Praise for the book ‘Roy’s prose does not hit a single wrong note: its restrained beauty sings off the page’ – Neel Mukherjee, Time Magazine ‘Poetic and evocative, Roy’s writing is a joy’ – Pearl Doherty, Financial Times

An Atlas of Impossible Longing

2011-04-05 Fiction
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Release : 2011-04-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 205/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book An Atlas of Impossible Longing written by Anuradha Roy. This book was released on 2011-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

All the Lives We Never Lived

2019-10-15 Fiction
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Release : 2019-10-15
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 524/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book All the Lives We Never Lived written by Anuradha Roy. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

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