Anuradha Roy crafts narratives that delve into the intricacies and contrasts of Indian society. Her works explore the depths of human relationships, examining themes of identity, memory, and politics. Roy's prose is both poetic and incisive, often employing rich imagery to depict intimate and societal landscapes. Her writing offers readers a unique lens through which to understand life in India.
Moving its protagonists between India and Britain, The Earthspinner shows the many ways in which the East encounters the West, fanaticism wars tirelessly against reason, and the individual's creative desires struggle against a populace's basic instinct for destruction.
A love story - as beautiful as it is unbearably sad - about two people who choose each other when others have abandoned them.
An artist's escape from a stultifying marriage is set against India's fight for independence and a world war, in a sweeping new novel by the Man Booker longlisted author of Sleeping on Jupiter
Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, "Sleeping on Jupiter" explores themes of violence, love, and religion in modern India. Three elderly women meet a young filmmaker, Nomi, on a train to Jarmuli. As their lives intertwine over five days, the town's dark history unfolds, revealing a haunting narrative of transformation and resilience.
Anuradha's lucid and lively retelling of the Baburnama will introduce this classic of world literature to a new generation of young readers.
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 ).
A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, a distracted air. She looks Indian, yet she is somehow not. The sudden violence of what happens next leaves the other passengers gasping.The train terminates at Jarmuli, a temple town by the sea. Here, among pilgrims, priests and ashrams, three old women disembark only to encounter the girl once again. What is someone like her doing in this remote corner, which attracts only worshippers? Over the next five days, the old women live out their long-planned dream of a holiday together; their temple guide finds ecstasy in forbidden love; and the girl is joined by a photographer battling his own demons. The fullforce of the evil and violence beneath the serene surface of the town becomes evident when their lives overlap and collide. Unexpected connections are revealed between devotion and violence, friendship and fear as Jarmuli is revealed as a place with a long, dark past that transforms all who encounter it. This is a stark and unflinching novel by a spellbinding storyteller, about religion, love, and violence in the modern world.
