Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Roy, Anuradha. Manufactured in the United States of America For more information or to book an event, contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-86 or visit our website at. The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For information address Free Press Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.įirst Free Press trade paperback edition April 2011įREE PRESS and colophon are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Published by arrangement with Quercus BooksĪll rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. Originally published in Great Britain in 2008 by MacLehose Press Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 This book is a work of fiction. Roy's writing is a joy.Free Press A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

this tale of three generations of an Indian family, set over the span of the 20th century, is brilliantly told intensely moving.' - Sunday Express (UK) 'Roy's prose does not hit a single wrong note: its restrained beauty sings off the page.' - Time Magazine Incidental characters are conjured with an almost Dickensian alacrity.' - The National Newspaper

Capturing the rhythms of life in rural backwater and big city alike, she strings together jewel-like episodes, skipping across decades and defining historical events in mere sentences, and giving her story the quality of something remembered.

a voice that is so distinctly Roy's own, you'd think she'd been doing this for decades. 'Recalls classics from Great Expectations to The Cherry Orchard. A complete success and an excellent choice for a discussion group.' - Library Journal 'Humorous passages, colorful descriptions, and a sprinkling of native words blend to concoct a poetic novel easily read again and again. Cultures may differ, but longing and love are universal.' - Publishers Weekly

'Roy is especially good at sensory description, making the sounds, smells, and feel of Bengal come vividly to life.

An atlas of impossible longing