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World Book Club: Anuradha Roy: An Atlas of Impossible Longing

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Anurhada Roy

07/07/2018 GMT

Anuradha Roy: An Atlas of Impossible Longing

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Indian writer Anuradha Roy discusses her much-loved novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing

This month we talk to celebrated Indian writer Anuradha Roy about her much-loved novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing.

This month World Book Club talks to internationally celebrated Indian writer Anuradha Roy about her much-loved novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing.

Spanning three generations of an Indian family from the turn of the 20th century to India's partition An Atlas of Impossible Longing traces the intertwining lives of the inhabitants of a vast and isolated house on the outskirts of a small town in Bengal.
 
Centred on sensitive foundling orphan boy Mukunda and the wild and motherless daughter of the house, Bakul, the novel charts the unshakeable but oft-threatened bond that grows between them in a world where they feel abandoned by everyone else. A haunting and compelling story of love, loss, grief and the power of home.

(Picture: Anuradha Roy. Photo credit: fmantovani.)

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