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Sleeping on Jupiter

Anuradha Roy

A train terminates at Jarmuli, a temple town by the sea. Here, among pilgrims, priests and ashrams, three old women from the train encounter a girl with wild hair and sloppy clothes. What is someone like her doing in this remote corner, which attracts only worshippers? Over the next few days, the women live out their dream of a holiday together; their temple guide finds ecstasy in forbidden love; and the girl is joined by a man battling his own demons. As their lives overlap and collide, unexpected connections are revealed between devotion and violence, friendship and fear, and Jarmuli emerges as a place with a long, dark past that transforms everyone who encounters it.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : MAY 15, 2016
  • Imprint : Hachette India
  • Page Extent : 256
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9789351951254
  • Price : INR 499
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Anuradha Roy

Anuradha Roy is a writer and potter, author of five novels. Her first, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, was translated into sixteen languages. Sleeping on Jupiter, her third novel, won the DSC Prize for Fiction 2016 and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015. All the Lives We Never Lived won the 2022 Sahitya Akademi Award, one of India's highest literary honours, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.

 

Roy has been a visiting speaker at Cornell and Cordoba Universities, a Hawthornden Writing Fellow at Casa Ecco, Italy, and writer-in-residence at St-Nazaire, France. Other honours and awards include the Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year, the Economist Crossword Prize, and the Sushila Devi Prize 2022. Her non-fiction has been published in magazines and books in India and abroad. Roy lives in Ranikhet, where she is a graphic designer at Permanent Black, a press she runs with her partner, Rukun Advani, and four dogs.

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