![]() ![]() 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. Her new novel, The Earthspinner, will be published in September 2021. As Mukunda and Bakul grow, their intense closeness matures into something else, and Mukunda is banished to Calcutta. Anuradha Roy is the author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing and The Folded Earth, as well as Sleeping on Jupiter, which won the DSC Prize for Fiction 2016 and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015. 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. Bakul, a motherless daughter, runs wild with Mukunda, an orphan of unknown caste adopted by the family. A widower struggles with his love for an unmarried cousin. On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a family lives in solitude in their vast new house. ![]() "This is why we read fiction at all" raves the "Washington Post" Family life meets historical romance in this critically acclaimed, "gorgeous, sweeping novel" ("Ms Magazine") about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else, marking the signal American debut of an award-winning writer who richly deserves her international acclaim. ![]()
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