Publisher |
Hachette India Local |
Publication Year |
2012 |
ISBN-13 |
9789350094884 |
ISBN-10 |
9789350094884 |
Binding |
Paperback |
Number of Pages |
320 Pages |
Language |
(English) |
Weight (grms) |
290 |
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, and their intense closeness matures into something else, Mukunda is banished to Calcutta.
Anuradha Roy
Anuradha Roy's novel Sleeping on Jupiter was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2016 and won the D.S.C. prize for South Asian Literature. She won the Economist Crossword Prize, India's premier award for fiction, for her novel The Folded Earth, which was nominated for several other prizes including the Man Asia, the D.S.C., and the Hindu Literary Award. Her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, has been widely translated and was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and The Seattle Times.
Anuradha Roy
Hachette India Local