Sleeping on Jupiter
.png) First edition cover | |
| Author | Anuradha Roy |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Mónica Reyes Álvarez |
| Language | English |
| Set in | Jarmuli, India |
| Publisher | Hachette India |
Publication date | 15 April 2015 |
| Publication place | India |
| Media type | Print (hardback and softback), e-book, audio |
| Pages | 256 |
| Awards | 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature |
| ISBN | 978-93-5009-936-0 (hardback) |
| OCLC | 919002742 |
Sleeping on Jupiter is a novel by Anuradha Roy. It is her third novel and was published by Hachette India on 15 April 2015.[1] It was longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2015 The Hindu Literary Prize. It won the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
Summary
[edit]Nomi Frederiksen travels to Jarmuli, a temple town in India's coastal northeast, to produce a documentary film. Nomi was born in India but was later orphaned, and sent to an ashram in Jarmuli. She was subjected to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse while at the ashram. She later escaped and was adopted, moving to Norway. She meets three old women while on a train, Gouri, Latika, and Vidya. Her production assistant, Suraj, is Vidya's son and is troubled by his ongoing divorce. The chapters alternate between Nomi's first-person narration and third person narratives following the novel's secondary characters.
Reception
[edit]Kirkus Reviews praised the first-person narration of Nomi but criticized the secondary characters for doing "nothing to move the story forward" and wrote that the novel lacked a "satisfying resolution."[2]
Publishers Weekly wrote "the overlapping stories make for a rich and absorbing consideration of where the past ends and the present begins."[3]
Awards and honours
[edit]- Shortlist, 2015 The Hindu Literary Prize[4]
- Longlist, 2015 Man Booker Prize[5]
- Winner, 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature[6]
- Shortlist, 2015 Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award for Fiction[7]
- Shortlist, 2015 Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Fiction Prize[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sleeping On Jupiter". Hachette India. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ "Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy". Kirkus Reviews. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ "Fiction Book Review: Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy". Publishers Weekly. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ "The Hindu Prize 2015 Shortlist". The Hindu. 31 October 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
- ^ "Man Booker Prize announces 2015 longlist | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. Archived from the original on 2 July 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ "Indian author Anuradha Roy wins USD 50,000 DSC Prize". Business Standard. Press Trust of India. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ^ "6th edition of Tata LitFest to begin from Oct 29". India Today. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ^ "Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize - BLF 2015 - Bangalore Literature Festival". bangaloreliteraturefestival.org. Retrieved 14 November 2020.