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Paperback 272 Pages
Published: 01/03/2012
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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 this eccentric, and her friendship with a peasant girl, Charu, give her the sense that she might be able to forge a new existence away from the devastation of her past. As Maya finds out, no place is remote enough 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 divide people and threaten the future of her school. Charu begins to behave strangely, and soon Maya understands that a new boy in the neighbourhood may be responsible. When Diwan Sahib's nephew arrives to set up his trekking company on their estate, she is drawn to him despite herself, and finally she is forced to confront bitter and terrible truths. A many-layered and powerful narrative, by turns poetic, elegiac and comic, by the author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing.

Publisher: Quercus Publishing
ISBN: 9780857388315
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 188 g
Dimensions: 198 x 134 x 18 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

'A vivid evocation of north India. Roy conjures up striking images with the lightest of touches' Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler. - Tatler

'Roy creates some wonderful, often quite eccentric characters. You can always tell when this is done to perfection when even the smallest bit part characters seem to come to life with a few brief idiosyncrasies' Bookbag. - Bookbag

'Anuradha Roy is a formidable novelist: reading her elegiac but comic narrative lifts the spirit and brightens the day' Bookgroup Info. - Bookgroup Info

'Her prose is tight with life' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail. - Daily Mail

'Fresh and appetizing . . . I was captivated' Tabish Khair, Independent. - Independent

'Graceful and compassionate ... written in prose that has the precision and radiance of poetry' Neel Mukherjee. - Neel Mukherjee

'truly beautiful book. It makes you want to put the clocks back and move to India' Red Online. - Red Online

'Tender and comical' Kate Saunders, Sunday Times. - Sunday Times

Roy is particularly adept at mining the emotional intricacies of the relationship between Maya and Diwan Sahib, which also serves to symbolize India's uneasy passage from tradition to modernity' New York Times. - New York Times

''a terrific creation, cantankerous and capricious' Irish Times. - Irish Times

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