Anuradha Roy

"From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter, The Folded Earth, and An Atlas of Impossible Longing, a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present-day about a son's quest to uncover the truth about his mother. In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact German, but in small-town India in those days, all white foreigners were largely...

For Maya, a young widow trying to escape her complicated past, teaching school in a secluded mountain village offers a promise of peace. As Maya finds out, however, no refuge is remote enough to keep out the modern world, or her own past. The community she has grown to love comes under attack when powerful outsiders hijack the local elections dividing the villagers. When Maya's landlord's charming nephew sets up shop nearby, Maya is drawn to him...

Moving between England and India, this intricate, wrenching novel about the transformative ways of loving and living in an increasingly uncertain world follows Elango, a potter who is guided by an astral, indefinable voice to create his life’s work while driving him to a forbidden relationship.