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An Atlas of Impossible Longing
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Roy, Anuradha
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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.He prospers in the turbulent years after Partition, but his thoughts stay with his home, with Bakul, with all that he has lost – and he knows that he must return.
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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.He prospers in the turbulent years after Partition, but his thoughts stay with his home, with Bakul, with all that he has lost – and he knows that he must return.
About Author
Anuradha Roy was educated in Calcutta and Cambridge. She has worked as a publisher and a journalist and is now an editor at Permanent Black, an independent press. Her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, has been published in 17 countries and translated into 15 languages across the world. It was shortlisted for the Crossword Prize in India and longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award 2008. It has been named by World Literature Today as one of the 60 most essential books on modern India and was among the Washington Post's Books of the Year on its recent US publication. Her second novel, The Folded Earth, was shortlisted for the Hindu Literary Award and longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011.
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