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Title: Sleeping on Jupiter
Author: Anuradha Roy
Publisher: Hachette India
Genre: Literary
Fiction
Pages: 256
Rating: 5/5
The train was just a parcel of people rushing through a
landscape they had no connection to.
First
thing that attracted me towards the book was The Title “Sleeping on Jupiter”
and when it got selected in Booker Prize 2015 Longlist. I found the right reason
why should I read it? I hope more readers who love to read sensible literature would
have picked Anuradha Roy’s latest work already.
She was a feather on the wings of the kite in that borderless sky.
From
the start, story engulfed all my senses at one go. The way Author described every
scene was beyond the words… I stopped reading after few pages and explored her
name on Google, as I have not read her stuff before and totally astonished by
just few pages, on that place author wins, I believe.
Don't you feel like disappearing from your life sometimes?
If
we talk about a basic story line, a seven year old girl, named Nomi, witnessed
her father’s brutal death and lost her whole family at once. Somehow he placed
into an Ashram where she suffered a lot in presence of a sinister Guruji. Roy
weaved the parallel characters so well, the three women who were vacationing and
clashed with the Girl, Nomi. You might be finding hard to get into his book at
first but It took me four days to finish it, meanwhile I feel no shame to
confess that I read and reread many sections. Now you can imagine the quality
of the literature, actually I wanted to savour every word every emotion
steadily.
I found variations in a single book, Author raises her point about faith, child abuse and homosexuality. Sometimes the poignant tale gave me Goosebumps enveloped with many
questions, would ever be the second gender
feel safe in this world and somewhere the boldness of characters, the language
of the book enthralled me. I would say
in bold letters, I Read a spellbound book after long time, maybe last was “The
House in Smyrna by Tatiana Salem Levy”
About
the Author
Anuradha
Roy won the Economist Crossword Prize 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 by World Literature Today as
one of the sixty essential books on modern India. She lives in Ranikhet.
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