The Folded Earth, Anuradha Roy
The Folded Earth, Anuradha Roy
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The Folded Earth

Author: Anuradha Roy

Narrator: Sneha Mathan

Unabridged: 9 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/24/2012


Synopsis

For Maya, a young widow trying to escape her complicated past, teaching school in a secluded mountain village offers a promise of peace. Here she feels close to the calm heart of the land, where lush foothills meet clear skies. In the evenings she teaches a peasant girl, Charu, to write so she can correspond with her lover in secret. 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 and threatening Charu's family. And when Maya's landlord's charming nephew sets up shop nearby, Maya is drawn to him despite her better instincts - and soon finds herself questioning everything she has ever known.

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

A delicate, almost effervescent beauty permeates the novel and the depiction of the Himalayan foothills where the novel is set; a place of lilac sunsets and translucent peaks, of a sense of listlessness which frequently disguises the danger which lurks beneath, from the leopards which stalk the fore......more