Sunday, 30 August 2015

Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy

 
 This story provides a fascinating mix of characters (a young woman with a tragic past, a photographer with a violent streak, three women with winter in their hair and a pilgrimage long time coming, a tour guide coming to terms with his homosexuality when he finds himself attracted to a boy working in tea stall, and the owner of tea stall who sings songs about melancholic earth and bright paddy field) with a main narrative that covers a few days when their lives intersect, set in India. However, the excellent gripping start slows down in the middle and I struggled to finish it.

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