Anuradha Roy Boeken

A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, a distracted air. She looks Indian, yet she is somehow not. The sudden violence of what happens next leaves the other passengers gasping.The train terminates at Jarmuli, a temple town by the sea. Here, among pilgrims, priests and ashrams, three old women disembark only to encounter the girl once again. What is someone like her doing in this remote corner, which attracts only worshippers? Over the next five days, the old women live out their long-planned dream of a holiday together; their temple guide finds ecstasy in forbidden love; and the girl is joined by a photographer battling his own demons. The fullforce of the evil and violence beneath the serene surface of the town becomes evident when their lives overlap and collide. Unexpected connections are revealed between devotion and violence, friendship and fear as Jarmuli is revealed as a place with a long, dark past that transforms all who encounter it. This is a stark and unflinching novel by a spellbinding storyteller, about religion, love, and violence in the modern world.

Moving its protagonists between India and Britain, The Earthspinner shows the many ways in which the East encounters the West, fanaticism wars tirelessly against reason, and the individual's creative desires struggle against a populace's basic instinct for destruction.

A love story - as beautiful as it is unbearably sad - about two people who choose each other when others have abandoned them.

An artist's escape from a stultifying marriage is set against India's fight for independence and a world war, in a sweeping new novel by the Man Booker longlisted author of Sleeping on Jupiter

Desperate to leave tragedy behind Maya seeks refuge as a teacher in a remote Indian mountain village, where she helps a young girl to correspond with a lover until outside forces hijack local elections and violently threaten the villagers.

Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, "Sleeping on Jupiter" explores themes of violence, love, and religion in modern India. Three elderly women meet a young filmmaker, Nomi, on a train to Jarmuli. As their lives intertwine over five days, the town's dark history unfolds, revealing a haunting narrative of transformation and resilience.

Anuradha's lucid and lively retelling of the Baburnama will introduce this classic of world literature to a new generation of young readers.

Niezwykła opowieścią o miłości, nienawiści, o bólu, stracie i nadziei, i wreszcie o walce natury z cywilizacją, a wszystko to wśród poetyckiej, egzotycznej scenerii dalekich Indii. W odciętym od świata miasteczku Ranikhet u podnóży Himalajów Maya, próbuje rozpocząć nowe życie i zapomnieć o osobistej tragedii. Uczy w miejscowej szkole, a nocami przepisuje na maszynie dzieło życia swojego gospodarza, Diwana Sahiba, wpływowego niegdyś polityka i lwa salonowego za czasów Indii Brytyjskich. Dzięki coraz głębszej więzi z ekscentrycznym arystokratą oraz przyjaźni z wiejską dziewczyną, Charu, Maya zaczyna powoli odzyskiwać wiarę, że uda jej się poukładać sobie życie na nowo, z dala od naznaczonej cierpieniem przeszłości. Jak się jednak wkrótce przekonuje, nie można uciec ani od bolesnych wspomnień, ani od niszczycielskiej siły cywilizacji. Świat, w którym ludzie żyją w harmonii z naturą i który właśnie dlatego pokochała, staje w obliczu dramatycznych zmian za sprawą nowych władz miasteczka. „Proza Roy jest jak zwykle cierpka i metaforyczna, a obrazy i zdarzenia wielowarstwowe i nasycone mnogością znaczeń. Piękna, poruszająca powieść… ”. Country and Town Magazine