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The Folded Earth

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2011 MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE HINDU LITERARY PRIZE FOR BEST FICTION 2011

WITH HER DEBUT NOVEL, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, Anuradha Roy’s exquisite storytelling instantly won readers’ hearts around the world, and the novel was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and The Seattle Times.

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Published April 24th 2012 by Free Press (first published February 2011)

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Nov 18, 2011 Mark Staniforth rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It takes a special writer to fashion something out of the ordinary from such a conventional subject: in this case, the much-plundered, Kipling-esque tale of rural India's struggle to shake off the remnants of the Raj and embrace an uneasy new political and religious future.
Anuradha Roy, however, has lifted 'The Folded Earth' far above the dangers of cliche, both with the shimmering beauty of her prose and the effortless manner in which she unfurls a tale rich in warmth and humour, yet never stra...more It takes a special writer to fashion something out of the ordinary from such a conventional subject: in this case, the much-plundered, Kipling-esque tale of rural India's struggle to shake off the remnants of the Raj and embrace an uneasy new political and religious future.
Anuradha Roy, however, has lifted 'The Folded Earth' far above the dangers of cliche, both with the shimmering beauty of her prose and the effortless manner in which she unfurls a tale rich in warmth and humour, yet never straying far from its delicate, dark heart.
'The Folded Earth' is about love, loss and longing as much as it about the corruptive influence of politics and religion: the fragility of everyday existence in the mountain villages of Himalaya mirrored by the uneasy peace among Hindus, Christians and Muslims, which is already spilling blood in the valleys below.
Maya, a young schoolteacher, escapes to the mountains following the death of her husband in a climbing accident, seeking and at first finding a happiness of sorts. She helps an eccentric scholar, Diwan Sahib, complete his life's work and forges a precious friendship with Charu, a peasant girl who lives on his estate.
When Charu falls in love with a visiting hotel cook, and Diwan's nephew Veer arrives to set up a trekking company, Maya's dream of solitude is shattered. Elections are approaching, and the rise in Hindu nationalism threatens the future of her school and the life she and the locals have forged around it.
Roy's work is a masterpiece of restraint. She conjures a world of such verdant beauty it must surely have been tempting to destroy it: juxtaposing her poetic descriptions with a brutality which shatters its inherent tranquility to devastating effect.
Many have done it; many others have resisted the temptation so entirely as to render their works little more than glorified travelogues; bright pictures of magical, distant lands. Roy has achieved both: content to let the dark forces lurk without ever quite manifesting themselves, she lends an extra potency and poignancy to almost all of the central characters' choices. Their lives as they know it are, you sense, hanging by a thread no stronger than the one which Charu tears superstitiously from her dupatta to tie to temple railings at the beginning of her greatest journey.
'The Folded Earth' is a book about the power and glory of nature, and the struggle of the human spirit to establish itself therein. The politics - and threats - ebb and flow through the scorching hot summers and frozen winters, but the mountains, and the mountain people, remain.
'The Folded Earth' - longlisted for the MAN Asian Literary Prize, and surely a strong contender - is a beautiful book that will not leave you until long after the final page. There, you will find what is perhaps Roy's ultimate anti-cliche: a happy (ish) and eminently satisfactory ending - for the time being, at least. (less)

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Jul 06, 2012 Mmars rated it 3 of 5 stars

Very quietly, Roy focuses on the remote corners of the heart and India. Sadness permeates the hamlet while nature's beauty encompasses it.

This quote, late in the book, exemplifies Roy's prowess and provides a window into the story as well:

"In winter, the air is clear enough to drink, and your eyes can travel many hundreds of miles until they reach the green of the near hills, the blue-gray beyond them, and then the snow peaks far away, which rise in the sky with the sun, and remain suspended th...more

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Mar 26, 2012 Laysee rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Folded Earth is an elegiac and poetic story of love, loss, memories, and new beginnings. Set in Ranikhet, a little town in the Indian Himalaya, the story is sensitively, unsentimentally told. Lines flow like soothing music. Little wonder that this novel won the Hindu Literary Prize 2011 and made it to the Short List for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011.

Maya, aged 25, lost her husband whom she had married against her family's wishes, in a mountaineering accident. She retreated to Ranikhet...more

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Aug 29, 2012 Diane rated it 3 of 5 stars

When Maya, a young Hindu woman, marries Michael, a Christian who her father disapproves of, her relationship with her family is severed. Michael was a professional photographer who claimed the mountains were in his blood, and his love for the mountains were as deep as the love he had for his wife. However just six years into their marriage, Michael dies in a mountaineering accident, and Maya finds herself all alone.

She decides to move to Ranikhet a village high in the mountains, the place her hu...more

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May 19, 2012 Ruth rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Beautiful, beautiful. It's Maya's (quiet but gripping) personal story, but it's also the story of the north India town, Ranikhet, where she goes to make a new life after her young husband's untimely death. The author lives in Ranikhet & says (in an interview at the end of the book) that in the novel, & the map at the front of the book, which she has drawn herself, it is fictionalized. The textures, sounds, topography, sky, plants, & animals of the place--as well as the human resident...more

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Mar 20, 2013 Dorothy rated it 3 of 5 stars

I was prepared to love this book--I was blown away by her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing--but I couldn't. It is, however, a good story and a lovely read. The writing is beautiful, especially her descriptions of the environment--the novel is in a sense a love letter to the Himalayan foothills where she lives. I also wonder if the author was aiming this book at a more Western audience than the first. It is a much more straightforward story and probably more accessible to those who kn...more I was prepared to love this book--I was blown away by her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing--but I couldn't. It is, however, a good story and a lovely read. The writing is beautiful, especially her descriptions of the environment--the novel is in a sense a love letter to the Himalayan foothills where she lives. I also wonder if the author was aiming this book at a more Western audience than the first. It is a much more straightforward story and probably more accessible to those who know little about India beyond Passage to India or the Raj Quartet.

Writing a novel in the first person presents difficulties. It is very hard for the novelist to show us what is going on in the other characters' heads. Consequently, many of the characters are rather stock: "the administrator," "the general," "the politicians," even Charu: "the lovely peasant girl with her goats." The fullest character is definitely Diwan Sahib, living in his aristocratic past, then also the elderly Ama and her son who talks to animals. Veer is a cipher. The sub-plot about the politicians is not well-developed and we are told almost nothing about what their policies are except that one, presumably BJP, is anti-Christian.

Maya herself comes across as very naive, impulsive, and not at all self-aware. There is little introspection about what is going on around her. For example, we can see that Charu's story has obvious parallels to her own story with Michael, but if Maya sees this and realizes that this is a reason for her sympathy for Charu, she doesn't tell us she thinks about it. We are told so little about her life with Michael that we don't get much sense of his character except he rides a motorbike and loves the mountains, and consequently I found it hard to feel her grief or understand her impulsive decision to go live near where he died. (That's not really a spoiler as we are told about his death in the first few pages.)

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Maya has been living in Ranikhet for five years before Veer appears. Why does she tell us so little about her life apart from her relationship with Diwan Sahib and Charu, and her appreciation of the beauty of the country? Yes, she tells us a bit about her teaching (mainly that she really isn't interested in it) and the jam factory, but she doesn't SHOW us much. I would love, for example, to heave heard more about the school. Why doesn't she find the teaching fulfilling? Why doesn't she work harder at it? She doesn't enlighten us. And why do she and Veer fall for each other?? Does he remind her of Michael? Is she lonely and he is the first reasonably acceptable male she comes across?? Why does he get involved with her?? Guilt about Michael's death would seem to be a reason to run away from her, not to have an affair. Because Maya is the narrator we can't see Veer's motivation. We can see that Veer has another side, but she refuses to see it. That's pretty naive--she believes him when she finds him searching the house and he says he is looking for his "uncle's" medical records and pushes her out. Why the big secret? She KNOWS that Diwan Sahib probably has some valuable letters between Nehru and Lady Mountbatten hidden somewhere that EVERYONE wants to get their hands on. Moreover, she never confronts Veer for supplying Diwan Sahib with booze and cigarettes, though she can see that it is ruining his health, which makes her in some sense complicit in his death. And at the end, her act is impulsive. Maybe revenge is understandable, but again, there is little introspection involved. She is punishing everyone, including herself, not just Veer. I was left with no deep understanding of her. In short, I liked Diwan Sahib, Ama, Puran, Charu and Kundan, but I just didn't like Maya much, or feel much sympathy for her, and I don't know if that is what the author intended.

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Dec 08, 2012 Hilary G rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Having read, and enjoyed, Anuradha Roy's first book, I was looking forward to reading this one, and I was not disappointed. I thought The Folded Earth was even better than An Atlas of Impossible Longing, and that Anuradha Roy is growing in confidence as a writer. Hopefully, we can look forward to much more from her.

The Folded Earth covers similar ground to the previous book, but in a totally different location. Place is a very important concept in A. Roy's books and her descriptions are marvello...more

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Apr 28, 2012 Susanna rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: realistic-fiction, non-western

The first 100 or so pages of this started out as strong as An Atlas of Impossible Longing, which I absolutely loved reading last year. I remember now why I love Anuradha Roy's writing so much - it comes off as enchanting and magical, and she says everything so eloquently and with occasional large words. I love how she interworks details from Indian history, archaeology, and culture with the main point of the story. But, unfortunately, I did not think that this book was anywhere near as fantastic...more

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Jun 14, 2012 Chad Walker rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: indian, literature, mfa, new-century

It's really, really beautiful writing. Roy creates a kind of hypnotic, dream-like state with her descriptions: for example, I remember a passage (I think around p. 150), where she describes the monsoon season in this hill town in such evocative, original language I had to read it three times. And that seems to be how Roy works: despite jumps in chronology or point of view, her very consistent, very poetic voice stitches together those pieces into a long-frame continuity. And it is a very touchin...more

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Nov 12, 2012 Garry rated it 2 of 5 stars

Maya is a city girl, married to a man with a passion for mountain climbing. When he dies on an ill-fated trip, she leaves Bangalore and takes up a job as a teacher in the village of Ranikhet, near where the accident occurred. The Folded Earth, which Maya narrates, tells of how she finds her place within the small community, and learns to move on from her husband's death.
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I enjoyed this book for most of its length. Maya could easily have been a 'doctor/policewoman/vet' from London moving to a rem...more Maya is a city girl, married to a man with a passion for mountain climbing. When he dies on an ill-fated trip, she leaves Bangalore and takes up a job as a teacher in the village of Ranikhet, near where the accident occurred. The Folded Earth, which Maya narrates, tells of how she finds her place within the small community, and learns to move on from her husband's death.
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I enjoyed this book for most of its length. Maya could easily have been a 'doctor/policewoman/vet' from London moving to a remote community in the Scottish Highlands. It read like a charming and comforting BBC series. Even Ranikhet, which seemed like a relic of a British colonial outpost, felt familiar and safe. It was definitely Indian though, and this became more and more obvious as the story unfolded. However, The Folded Earth would definitely make a decent introduction to Indian literature for those who don't like to be 'culture-shocked' by their books. (let me give you a tip... if you've never dipped your toe into Indian literature it's definitely something you should try)

I had every intention of giving The Folded Earth 4 stars: it was lovely in a lot of respects, and I found myself consistently wanting to visit Ranikhet, but at the same time it seemed a little insubstantial. It contained a series of charming vignettes, but didn't seem to contain any real punch.

Unfortunately, the punch did eventually come. I hope it's not a spoiler to say that the tone of the novel completely changed a few chapters from the end. I don't mean that there were plot twists... I mean that it suddenly turned nasty. It's one thing to have a sting the tail, but this was ridiculous. The Folded Earth didn't stay true to itself, and was completely spoiled for me as a result. I now only want to give it 2 stars, something I didn't imagine was possible 50 pages from home.

I'm not very good at picking out the messages in the books I read - I just like experiencing them. I can definitely see some bigger themes in this one though, so the author was obviously successful in getting me to think. However, that doesn't change the fact that I really disliked the ending.(less)

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May 15, 2012 April rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: wordsmith, woc, south-asian, social-commentary

This book is a bit more intense and haunting than An Atlas of Impossible Longing. Roy is just so talented. Even though I did not necessarily identify with Maya, the narrator, I nevertheless was emotionally stirred by the novel's bittersweet ending. It reminded me of the way I felt when I finished The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow.

Although the plot was much less engaging than her in first book, Roy's writing is what makes it great. Her lyricism, word choice and ease with metaphor ma...more

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Apr 24, 2012 Debbie rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'd first like to direct you to the beautiful cover! Doesn't that cover just draw you in? Make you feel as if something beautiful is waiting within? An awesome cover has me from the word go.

I found this book to be both beautiful, engaging, and frustrating all at the same time. The book is broken up into two parts. Part One just seemed to lay the groundwork for Part Two. Part One was very hard for me to get involved in. Part Two was very engaging. I fell in love with many of the local village cha...more

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Jul 11, 2012 Nesa Sivagnanam rated it 4 of 5 stars

In marrying a Christian, the narrator, Maya, has become estranged from her wealthy family in Hyderabad. But after six happy years together, her husband has died in a mountaineering accident. Rather than return to her parents, she seeks refuge in Ranikhet, a town that looks toward the mountains that so entranced her husband. Overcome with grief, she stows away his backpack, recovered from the scene of the accident, and refuses to inspect its contents. She can’t bear to know the details surroundin...more

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May 09, 2012 Book Him Danno rated it 3 of 5 stars

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This book started out with a good flow but about the half-way point it slowed down. I had to push through the pages to pick the story up again and with that the flow increased. The lives of the people living in this remote area of India were interesting and diverse. The sadness and loss I felt in the beginning returned at the end. Such heartbreak and despair for one person seems unbearable.

The relationships Maya experienced in her life were varied and yet each left its mark on her personality a...more

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Jul 21, 2012 Beverly rated it 4 of 5 stars

• The strength of this book is its language and descriptions – how the author uses phrases was what settled me into this book.
• The author did a very good job of making me feel I was right there in the village/town with the characters and their daily lives
• Interesting cast of characters – but does subtly explore the caste, class, gender, religious differences and also showed how the characters were bound together despite these differences.
• The locale was a hill station – and enjoyed how it wa...more

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Jun 21, 2012 Ian rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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The writing is smooth flowing and depiction of mountain scenery beautiful, but plot is a little lacking in substance. Essentially it traces a young widow's journey of recovery and coming to terms with the loss of her husband through her migration from citylife in the plains to quaint village life in the foothills of the Himalaya. Her dead husband's last moments catches up with her via the new man she meets amongst the cast of memorable characters that inhabit the village. I agree with many revie...more

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Jul 30, 2012 Chaitra rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2012, indian-literature, set-in-india, romance, literary-fiction, politics, chick-lit

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. It started well, and Roy writes well grammatically. I kept turning the pages, but so many things bothered me. It bothered me that she would lamely end one of her two perspectives - the interesting one too. Charu goes to Delhi in search of a guy that doesn't seem interested in her anymore. The next we know of her is a couple of lines is in Maya's chapter - that she got married and is in Singapore. Huh? It bothered me that after all the build up to it, Charu (and Maya) goes scot free after her att...more It started well, and Roy writes well grammatically. I kept turning the pages, but so many things bothered me. It bothered me that she would lamely end one of her two perspectives - the interesting one too. Charu goes to Delhi in search of a guy that doesn't seem interested in her anymore. The next we know of her is a couple of lines is in Maya's chapter - that she got married and is in Singapore. Huh? It bothered me that after all the build up to it, Charu (and Maya) goes scot free after her attempt to flee.

It bothers me that Maya never confronts Veer with what she realizes about him. Instead she decides he is a culprit, a bad guy. He does seem to be a nasty person - but it would have been nice to have his perspective on things as well. But, he spends large portions of the book off the page. We never get to know Veer's side. This is true of the politics Roy stuffs this book as well. There's a so called undercurrent of political awareness in the book, that increases the page count, but adds to nothing else. The description of the book is misleading. There is nothing Maya truly fights for - hers is only a lip-service. We get elaborately introduced to the two competing politicians, and Roy lets us know which one she prefers is practically every line of the book. Except we don't even know which party won the election so tightly contested for. Except Roy never makes a sufficient case for us to swallow that the party that she doesn't prefer is actually terrible other than the fact that she says so.

It bothers me most that Maya gets total control of the Diwan's will. And she rips it apart as a revenge for the crimes Veer has committed. Yeah ok, but the will has other beneficiaries Maya, not just two willful whiny brats born to riches. The other beneficiaries of the will are all much poorer, longer faithful ly served the Diwan, and would lose out without anything without the will. And yet this bitch (and the author) spares not a thought for any of them. So there you go, Maya really fights for nothing. Not even herself. She just judges people in her own head and executes them without ever telling them she did or giving them an excuse to explain their side. It's hard to care about this book.(less)

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Jun 11, 2012 Cathy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Beautifully written book - really quite amazing. I picked this up because I very much enjoyed An Atlas of Impossible Longing which I read many years go. Roy is an amazing story-teller - within a few pages (or even paragraphs!), you're swept away to Maya's world in Ranikhet in India. Maya is a young woman who has lost her husband; she travels to this remote mountain village to escape her grief. There are many colorful, endearing characters in this small village - the communications among them and...more

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Feb 18, 2013 Lynn rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'm always interested in titles, where they come from, why they were chosen. This title perplexes me. I can't quite understand the symbolism.

Nevertheless, this was a story of love: love lost, love sought, love found, love exploited, love of friends. All set against a the beauty of the Himalayan foothills and their contrast to urban Delhi, traditional vs. modern India..

An exploration of caste, religion and nationality, and the part they play in shaping the characters.

A shocking ending.

I particu...more

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Apr 04, 2011 For Books' Sake rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"The Folded Earth constantly grapples with grandiose themes almost effortlessly. The sense of foreboding that begins the novel calls to mind Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea but it is exacted with poetic language like that of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. As always, Roy’s writing remains gently poignant and metaphoric throughout, every vignette and scenario she constructs feels multi-layered and deeply meaningful."

(Excerpt from full review of The Folded Earth at For Books' Sake)

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May 29, 2012 Deborah Ward rated it 4 of 5 stars

Roy engages the reader with deep descriptions of people and place in her second novel. Her characters live up to the readers early perceptions, their experiences shape them in the slow turning lathe that is life and experience. In this work you truly feel the characters. Their foibles, their beauty. You experience their growth and maturity, regret, greed. Few books have created such an intimacy between the reader and the men, women and children who populate this novel.

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Feb 16, 2013 Jessica rated it 2 of 5 stars

I really am not sure if I liked this book or not. I think I rated it with 2 stars only because of the author's writing and how the book initially sucked me in. I got into the book right away and cared about the main character. Then the book slowed down and I didn't like where it was going and choices she was making. And then the end.... I so did not like it; where it ended or her last choice. Maybe I was not in the mood for such serious content and lack of happiness in all the characters lives,...more

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Sep 09, 2012 Cyndi rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Beautiful, poetic writing weaves the tale of Mya and how she came to live in a remote village. Mya's character is hard to describe and therefore believable. She is not coventional but she respects convention. She marches to her own drum, but in a respectful manner. Mya may be the protaganist but there is so much more to this story with the characters of the village. Mya tells her story in a very unemotional way but you can feel the emotion with the writing and the characters distinct personaliti...more

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Aug 16, 2012 Kitty Bullard rated it 5 of 5 stars

Book Title: "The Folded Earth”
Author: Anuradah Roy
Published By: Free Press
Age Recommended: 18+
Reviewed By: Kitty Bullard
Raven Rating: 5

Review: Maya has moved to the foothills of the Himalaya’s to find peace and serenity. She soon realizes that to keep what she has found, she’ll have to fight. If Maya can’t save her sanctuary, she may find her peace shattered and end up tossed back into the old life she escaped.
This book has it all, drama, suspense, romance, and excitement. This is a beautiful s...more

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Aug 26, 2012 Maye rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone

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This is an amazing book. A must read for anyone who enjoys well-written literature. I had no idea what it was about before I read it but it turned out to be a pleasant surprise. Roy tells the story of Maya, a widowed school teacher, who moves to the mountains of India to get away from the home she made with her late husband. She makes friends with the locals and grows close to her elderly land lord while there. Ultimately this book is about loss and the relations Maya makes while in the village...more

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Sep 06, 2012 Rene Spector rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'm left feeling conflicted with this novel. I wanted more, instead I think Roy was going for something else, and I missed it. I didn't like how Charu's story was cut short specifically, why? It would have taken a whole paragraph to wrap that up. Also, I didn't really like any of the characters, not one. If a story is like this one, not really about much, just daily lives and lessons, they must have strong or likable characters. So that is probably my biggest issue. Roy has a beautiful perspecti...more

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Aug 03, 2012 Piya rated it 3 of 5 stars

I would not have ended a story the way the author, Anuradha Roy, did in this one, too much like a Greek tragedy. But the depictions of Himalayan mountain life and nature are interesting and patch together a well-developed theme in this work. The attempt to give voice to a number of characters, some more forgettable than others, may have proved to be too ambitious for Roy, but there are some moments of brilliance in her writing. I give her brownie points for originality and a (somewhat predictabl...more

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Aug 25, 2012 Katherine rated it 2 of 5 stars

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"Ferns fountain from rock faces..." (16).
"It was this solitary drinking that gave me the deepest satisfaction, as if it were an affirmation that my time was my own at last, after a whole day's effort with other people. It pleased me that if anyone--other than Diwan Sahib, who supplied me with the rum--had known that I drank alone, I would have been labeled a 'Bad Woman.' This thought alone was usually enough to restore me to tranquility" (28-29).
"...and below them were terraced slopes that in th...more

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Jul 05, 2012 Tayyba rated it 2 of 5 stars

A Himalayan estate and a handful of colorful characters do not a good novel make--by themselves, that is. If I had absolutely nothing else to do, I might have waded to the end of this book. But scenes just for the sake having them, and a first person narrative that bizarrely manages to get into the inner world of other characters seriously weigh down one's patience. This book has the meat, but not the bones. So reading it was like prodding around folds of flesh to see if one can find some struct...more

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Jul 26, 2012 Luminea rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: india, fiction

I appreciated learning more about rural India and some of its history, as well as the vivid descriptions of the landscape and animals. The story itself left me unsatisfied as I felt like I had so many unanswered questions about different characters. I would like to have read a scene about Charu's reunion with Kundan as well as their wedding. I also wanted to know what Maya would do with the letters between Edwina and Nehru. I don't feel like the author made me care enough about any of the charac...more

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Anuradha Roy was educated in Hyderabad, Calcutta and Cambridge (UK). She is an editor at Permanent Black, an independent press publishing in South Asian history, politics and culture. She lives mainly in Ranikhet, India, with her husband Rukun Advani and their dog, Biscoot.

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“Until humans came and made anthills out of these mountains, Diwan Sahib was saying, looking up at the langurs, the land had belonged to these monkeys, and to barking deer, nilgai, tiger, barasingha, leopards, jackals, the great horned owl, and even to cheetahs and lions. The archaeology of the wilderness consisted of these lost animals, not of ruined walls, terracotta amulets, and potsherds.” — 2 people liked it

“These are secrets hidden from those who escape the Himalaya when it is at its bleakest: the mountains do not reveal themselves to people who come here merely to escape the heat of the plains. Through the summer they veil themselves in a haze. The peaks emerge for those devoted to them through the coldest of winters, the wettest of monsoons. The mountains, Diwan Sahib said in an uncharacteristic rush of sentimentality fueled by a few drinks at his fireplace, believe that love must be tested by adversity.” — 2 people liked it

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