Roy Anuradha - Sleeping On Jupiter A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Long - listed for the Man Booker Prize a novel about violence love and religion in modern India On a train bound for the seaside town of Jarmuli known for its temples three elderly women meet a young documentary filmmaker named Nomi whose braided hair tattoos and foreign air set her apart. At a brief stop en route the women witness a sudden assault on Nomi that leaves her stranded as the train pulls away. Later in Jarmuli among pilgrims priests and ashrams the women disembark only to find that Nomi has managed to arrive on her own. What is someone like her clearly not a worshipper doing in this remote place? Over the next five days the women live out their long - planned dream of a holiday together; their temple guide pursues a forbidden love; and Nomi is joined by a photographer to scout locations for a documentary. As their lives overlap and collide Nomi's past comes into focus and the serene surface of the town is punctured by violence and abuse as Jarmuli is revealed as a place with a long dark history that transforms all who encounter it. A haunting vibrant novel that was long - listed for the Man Booker Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and short - listed for the Hindu Literary Prize Anuradha Roy's Sleeping on Jupiter is a brilliantly told story of contemporary India from an internationally acclaimed writer.
Title: Sleeping On Jupiter A Novel
Author(s): Roy Anuradha
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781555977511
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/6/2016
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction