Folded Earth is a beautiful and lyrical book set mostly in a small Indian village in the foothills of the Himalayas, It reads like a narrative poem written long ago although the story takes place in the present time, The story slowly unfolds, seemingly going nowhere, but Roy draws all the loose ends together in the end, You are left with a wistful sadness for the random pain in life and the inevitable dissolution of everything we spend our lifetimes creating, I have enjoyed my first Anuradha Roy book and will surely seek out of her work, For me, this was a story about the futility of trying to put the past behind us, The characters are well drawn, but melancholy, While set in India, the story could have been told anywhere, Warning: this may awaken a craving for samosas and saag alloo, A very sad, beautifully written story about the life of a young woman in India, The daughter of a wealthy industrialist falls in loves and elopes with a man her father disapproves of, . Her formerly doting father disowns her and her life is never the same again, Maya's husband was a man of the mountains, and to him the flats of the Oceanside and the plains seem insipid and formless, He dies on a climb, and Maya lip now lives in the older earth of valleys tucked into the roils of mountains, near the site of his death.
In the Village they know that much survives that is not always seen, The peaks of the Himalayas are so hidden in mist in summer as to not appear, but come the clear days of winter, the fill the sky, In this book, by lightest inference, we see those realities present, but not always perceived, While this book is spiritual, it is not mystical, The lives of the characters contain all of this within their ken, A lovely book. From the widely acclaimed author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing, a powerful and triumphantly beautiful novel set in contemporary India, about a young woman forging a new life in the foothills of the Himalayas.
LONGLISTED FOR THEMAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HINDU LITERARY PRIZE FOR BEST FICTION
With her debut novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, Anuradha Roys 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.
Now, Roy has returned with another masterpiece that is already earning international prize attention, an evocative and deeply moving tale of a young woman making a new life for herself amid the foothills of the Himalaya.
Desperate to leave a private tragedy behind, Maya abandons herself to the rhythms of the little village, where people coexist peacefully with nature, But all is not as it seems, and she soon learns that no refuge is remote enough to keep out the modern world, When power hungry politicians threaten her beloved mountain community, Maya finds herself caught between the life she left behind and the new home she is determined to protect.
Elegiac, witty, and profound by turns, and with a tender love story at its core, The Folded Earth brims with the same genius and love of language that made An Atlas of Impossible Longing an international success and confirms Anuradha Roy as a major literary talent.
Why do readers write the full synopsis of the story as a review Allow me to read the book for myself please,
I LOVED An Atlas of Impossible longing and so bought The Folded Earth, This book was very well written but the story I found sometimes a little too drawn out, The characters were wonderful and Miss Roy placed you right there in the little Himalayan village, I had the feeling I could go there and find all the places she mentioned,
I wanted to see Veer get his comeuppance, but sadly the ending left me wanting, Did the cad ever return to Ranikhet to try to lay claim to his uncle/father's estate I also wanted of Charu, She disappears, jumps into a taxi in Delhi and then she sends a letter from Singapore, Was she accepted by her husband's family What was her life like in Delhi
After reading Miss Roy's first novel, I must say this storyline left me begging for , and I found that the end of the novel seemed too hurried.
Maya marries her true love, but their time together is short, She settles into a faraway town and befriends a cherished elder and the other families living close to her, All the lives become inextricably connected, sharing hope, love, defeats, and secrets that are finally brought to light This story was very captivating, The characters were very well developed according to their roles in the story, The imagery brought me to India and I did not want to leave, Visuals are exquisite. Quite, unfolding, intriguing, intricate, justice, Solace for the soul, yet yearning and heartbreaking,
Enjoy, savor, read it,
In the Village they know that much survives that is not always seen, The peaks of the Himalayas are so hidden in mist in summer as to not appear, but come the clear days of winter, the fill the sky, In this book, by lightest inference, we see those realities present, but not always perceived, While this book is spiritual, it is not mystical, The lives of the characters contain all of this within their ken, A lovely book. From the widely acclaimed author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing, a powerful and triumphantly beautiful novel set in contemporary India, about a young woman forging a new life in the foothills of the Himalayas.
LONGLISTED FOR THEMAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HINDU LITERARY PRIZE FOR BEST FICTION
With her debut novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, Anuradha Roys 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.
Now, Roy has returned with another masterpiece that is already earning international prize attention, an evocative and deeply moving tale of a young woman making a new life for herself amid the foothills of the Himalaya.
Desperate to leave a private tragedy behind, Maya abandons herself to the rhythms of the little village, where people coexist peacefully with nature, But all is not as it seems, and she soon learns that no refuge is remote enough to keep out the modern world, When power hungry politicians threaten her beloved mountain community, Maya finds herself caught between the life she left behind and the new home she is determined to protect.
Elegiac, witty, and profound by turns, and with a tender love story at its core, The Folded Earth brims with the same genius and love of language that made An Atlas of Impossible Longing an international success and confirms Anuradha Roy as a major literary talent.
Why do readers write the full synopsis of the story as a review Allow me to read the book for myself please,
I LOVED An Atlas of Impossible longing and so bought The Folded Earth, This book was very well written but the story I found sometimes a little too drawn out, The characters were wonderful and Miss Roy placed you right there in the little Himalayan village, I had the feeling I could go there and find all the places she mentioned,
I wanted to see Veer get his comeuppance, but sadly the ending left me wanting, Did the cad ever return to Ranikhet to try to lay claim to his uncle/father's estate I also wanted of Charu, She disappears, jumps into a taxi in Delhi and then she sends a letter from Singapore, Was she accepted by her husband's family What was her life like in Delhi
After reading Miss Roy's first novel, I must say this storyline left me begging for , and I found that the end of the novel seemed too hurried.
Maya marries her true love, but their time together is short, She settles into a faraway town and befriends a cherished elder and the other families living close to her, All the lives become inextricably connected, sharing hope, love, defeats, and secrets that are finally brought to light This story was very captivating, The characters were very well developed according to their roles in the story, The imagery brought me to India and I did not want to leave, Visuals are exquisite. Quite, unfolding, intriguing, intricate, justice, Solace for the soul, yet yearning and heartbreaking,
Enjoy, savor, read it,
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 Fictionand was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Her new novel, The Earthspinner, will be published in September,
Her last novel, All the Lives We Never Lived, was published worldwide inand
won the Tata Book of the Year Award, It was shortlisted for the Dublin International Literature Award and the DSC Prize and nominated for numerous other prizes, including the Water Scott Prize for Historical Fiction,
In, she was conferred the Nilimarani Sahitya Samman for Outstanding Contribution to Indian Literature,
Roy won the Economist Crossword Prize for The Folded Earth, which was longlisted for the Man Asia Prize, Her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing was picked as one of the Best Books of the Year by Washington Post, Huffington Post and Seattle Times, Her books have been translated into overlanguages including French, Italian, Russian, German, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew and Portuguese,
She works as a graphic designer at Permanent Black, an independent press she runs with Rukun Advani, She lives in Ranikhet, India,
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