An Atlas of Impossible Longing

“A story to lose yourself in - Anuradha Roy is a wonderful writer … this tale of three generations of an Indian family, set over the span of the 20th century, is brilliantly told - intensely moving - Sunday ExpressDeftly and sensitively narrated - IndependentA lyrical love letter to India’s past - an India of innocent child brides and jasmine-scented summer evenings. Poetic and evocative. Roy’s writing is a joy - Financial Times Written with a soaring yet impeccably balanced lyricism, Roy’s prose does not hit a single wrong note: its restrained beauty sings off the page. Above all, the book has an elusive quality, so absent from the contemporary novel, a quality that can only be described as grace - Time Magazine

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.

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