Anuradha Roy, Free Press, $14 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-0862-5
Roy's impressive American debut covers multiple generations of an Indian family from the turn of the 20th century to India's partition. Three distinct sections revolve around Amulya, who runs an herbal medicine and fragrance business; his mentally...
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Anuradha Roy. Free Press, $14 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-4516-3333-7
After her husband, Michael, dies in a mountain-climbing mishap, Maya flees to the tiny Himalayan town of Ranikhet to escape her past and find peace. While teaching English at a Christian school, she befriends her teenage neighbor and milk delivery...
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Anuradha Roy. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-55597-751-1
Travelling to India, to a fictional Vishnu temple in a beachside town, Nomi is returning to the land of her birth as well as to the place that haunts her memory. Having lost her family during an unspecified war, Nomi, at age seven, was brought to an
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Anuradha Roy. Atria, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-9821-0051-3
The latest novel from Roy (Sleeping on Jupiter) is a lush and lyrical fusion of history and storytelling. Set in the late 1930s and early 1940s in the fictional Indian small town of Muntazir—amid India’s fight for independence from Britain and the...
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Anuradha Roy. HarperVia, $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-322068-3
The art of pottery looms large in Roy’s latest, a novel of small tragedies (after All the Lives We Never Lived). Narrator Sara, a lonely Indian student on scholarship at a damp English university, seeks solace in a pottery studio in the basement of...
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Anuradha Roy, read by Sneha Mathan. Dreamscape Media, l0 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-61120-771-2
In the Himalayas of northern India, Maya—whose husband recently died in a mountain-climbing accident—travels to the small town of Ranikhet to assume a teaching position and find solace. There she begins to teach a peasant named Charu to read and...
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