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About the Book : 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 the eccentric scholar and her friendship with a village girl, Charu, seem to offer her the chance of a new life in Ranikhet, where lush hills meet clear skies. As Maya finds out, no refuge is remote or small enough. The world she has come to love, where people are connected with nature, is endangered by the towns new administration. The impending elections are hijacked by powerful outsiders who sow division and threaten the future of her school. Charu begins to behave strangely, and Maya soon understands that a new boy in the neighbourhood may be responsible for changes in her friend. When Diwan Sahibs nephew arrives to set up his trekking company on their estate, she is drawn to him despite herself, but his disappearances into the mountains evoke painful echoes of the past. By turns poetic, elegiac and comic, The Folded Earth is a many-layered and powerful narrative about characters struggling with their pasts a novel that poignantly reveals the strange shapes that Indias religious and social conflicts can assume even on distant mountain tops. Selling Points : Literary novel dealing with love, loss and memories the kind of novel that has a dedicated, guaranteed readership The authors first book received critical acclaim worldwide and sold well in India The first novel was shortlisted for the Crossword Award and was translated into thirteen languages worldwide The book will get wide press coverage since she is a known writer and part of the publishing world one of the co-founders of Permanent Black Roys prose does not hit a single wrong note: its restrained beauty sings off the page Neel Mukherjee, Time Magazine
Product Details
Title: | The Folded Earth |
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Author: | Anuradha Roy |
Publisher: | HACHETTE |
ISBN: | 9789350094730 |
SKU: | BK0377412 |
EAN: | 9789350092514 |
Number Of Pages: | 268 |
Language: | English |
Binding: | Paperback |
Release date: | 1 January 2011 |