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Title: Sleeping on Jupiter
Author: Anuradha Roy
Narrator: Bhavnisha Parmar
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-08-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, a novel about violence, love, and religion in modern India.
On a train bound for the seaside town of Jarmuli, known for its temples, three elderly women meet a young documentary filmmaker named Nomi, whose braided hair, tattoos, and foreign air set her apart. At a brief stop en route, the women witness a sudden assault on Nomi that leaves her stranded as the train pulls away.
Later in Jarmuli, among pilgrims, priests, and ashrams, the women disembark only to find that Nomi has managed to arrive on her own. What is someone like her, clearly not a worshipper, doing in this remote place? Over the next five days, the women live out their long-planned dream of a holiday together; their temple guide pursues a forbidden love; and Nomi is joined by a photographer to scout locations for a documentary. As their lives overlap and collide, Nomi's past comes into focus, and the serene surface of the town is punctured by violence and abuse as Jarmuli is revealed as a place with a long, dark history that transforms all who encounter it.
A haunting, vibrant novel that was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and short-listed for the Hindu Literary Prize, Anuradha Roy's Sleeping on Jupiter is a brilliantly told story of contemporary India from an internationally acclaimed writer.
Members Reviews:
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Remarkable wordsmith, the author dazzles with words and descriptions - and an extraordinary capacity to capture emotions. This is what saves the novel from mediocrity and makes it a worthwhile read. I regret the plot was not up to the quality of the writing. Too many threads are left loose - I know, it's done deliberately and it certainly adds to the general dark mood. But nevertheless, as a reader, I like a good plot, I want to be sure of endings, with no strands left hanging, and this is where Roy comes short.
Let me try to explain. To my mind, a good plot is like the Place de l'Etoile in Paris: you walk up the various boulevards, a piece of plot unfolding in each of them, and once you've walked up all of them and seen all the pieces of plot unfold, you enter the big Place de l'Etoile, in a swirl of traffic coming from all the avenues leading to it. And that makes for one big, satisfying climax, with all plot pieces resolved in one fell swoop.
Here,there is no single climax, you could argue there's a series of them, but they are all "small stuff". Perhaps because there are too many characters to handle, who knows (though, arguably, the high number of characters is deliberate, each acts as a "foil" for the next). And that is the reason why I can't assign five stars to this book, although the author is hugely talented, and I can honestly say I'm looking forward to her next book - hoping she will follow the Place de l'Etoile metaphor. Dear reader, read this novel and watch out for her next book, that's my advice.
Four Stars
Strong imagery. Plausible plot. Refreshing style.