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Anuradha Roy

Biography

Anuradha Roy

Anuradha Roy is the award-winning author of THE FOLDED EARTH and AN ATLAS OF IMPOSSIBLE LONGING, which has been published in 16 countries and named by World Literature Today as one of the 60 most essential books on modern India. She lives in India.

Anuradha Roy

Books by Anuradha Roy

by Anuradha Roy - Fiction

ALL THE LIVES WE NEVER LIVED is the story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, who rebels against tradition to follow her artist’s instinct for freedom. Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight against British rule is reaching a critical turn. The Nazis have come to power in Germany. At this point of crisis, two strangers arrive in Gayatri’s town, opening up to her the vision of other possible lives. What took Myshkin’s mother from India and Dutch-held Bali in the 1930s, ripping a knife through his comfortingly familiar universe? Excavating the roots of the world in which he was abandoned, Myshkin comes to understand the connections between the anguish at home and a war‑torn universe overtaken by patriotism.