In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. By day she teaches in a school and at night she types up drafts of a magnum opus by her landlord, a relic of princely India known to all as Diwan Sahib. Her bond with this eccentric, and her friendship with a peasant girl, Charu, give her the sense that she might be able to forge a new existence away from the devastation of her past. As Maya finds out, no place is remote enough or small enough. The world she has come to love, where people are connected with nature, is endangered by the town's new administration. The impending elections are hijacked by powerful outsiders who divide people and threaten the future of her school. Charu begins to behave strangely, and soon Maya understands that a new boy in the neighbourhood may be responsible. When Diwan Sahib's nephew arrives to set up his trekking company on their estate, she is drawn to him despite herself, and finally she is forced to confront bitter and terrible truths. A many-layered and powerful narrative, by turns poetic, elegiac and comic, by the author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
ISBN-13
9780857388315
eBay Product ID (ePID)
112741384
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Folded Earth
Author
Anuradha Roy
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2012
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
134mm
Item Weight
188g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Anuradha Roy
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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