Sleeping on Jupiter, Anuradha Roy
Sleeping on Jupiter, Anuradha Roy
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Sleeping on Jupiter

Author: Anuradha Roy

Narrator: Deepti Gupta

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/16/2016


Synopsis

A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, and 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 full force 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.

About Anuradha Roy

Anuradha Roy is the author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing, The Folded Earth, All The Lives We Never Lived, and Sleeping on Jupiter—which won the DSC Prize for Fiction 2016 and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2015. She lives in Ranikhet, India.


Reviews

Goodreads review by da on January 12, 2018

I really don't know how to rate this book. I hate to slam it and the author because there truly was so much potential in it in terms of content, literary writing, and subject matter. I went into it without reading what it would be about. Perhaps I should have? This is a rollercoaster of a novel, not......more

Goodreads review by Barry on August 12, 2015

Our narrator, Nomi, retells the stories from her traumatic childhood and paints a harsh picture of Indian society. In a couple of days she witnesses her father's murder and is deserted by her mother, the beginning of this novel is gripping and the prose exudes brutal brilliance. However, as we read......more

Goodreads review by David Reviews on August 04, 2015

Sleeping on Jupiter is a beautifully written novel and longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. Anuradha Roy brings us a taste of India with a fascinating mix of characters and a main narrative that covers a few days when their lives intersect. Nomi is the lead character and it’s her story and her......more

Goodreads review by Jen on September 01, 2015

2.5/5. Video review is here: [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Ravi on August 31, 2016

Jai Shree Ganesh... Phew ! This year's my first Booker Prize long-listed book. And from India. What I should say ? Beautifully written. The story takes in its circle, course of four days, the city of Jarmuli. Three old women , Vidya Latika and Gouri, all are on Pilgrim holiday, their struggle for loss......more