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Sleeping on Jupiter

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Description for Sleeping on Jupiter Paperback. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 AND WINNER OF THE 2016 DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE - A stark and unflinching novel by a spellbinding storyteller, about religion, love and violence in the modern world Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 178.
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 AND WINNER OF THE 2016 DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE A stark and unflinching novel by a spellbinding storyteller, about religion, love and violence in the modern world. 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, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
MacLehose Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
178g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848666900
SKU
V9781848666900
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About Anuradha Roy
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Sleeping on Jupiter
Roy crafts a riveting tale of religion, family and violence that is nearly impossible to put down.
Kathleen Davies
Michigan Daily.
Sleeping on Jupiter is that rarest of novels: a fiction that serves as an agent of social change.
Paul Constant
Seattle Weekly.
Roy writes beautifully . . . Readers will be moved and ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Sleeping on Jupiter


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