The Folded Earth

'Tender and comical' Kate Saunders, Sunday Times. 'Her prose is tight with life' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail. 'Fresh and appetizing ... I was captivated' Tabish Khair, Independent. 'Graceful and compassionate ... written in prose that has the precision and radiance of poetry' Neel Mukherjee. 'A vivid evocation of north India. Roy conjures up striking images with the lightest of touches' Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler. 'Roy creates some wonderful, often quite eccentric characters. You can always tell when this is done to perfection when even the smallest bit part characters seem to come to life with a few brief idiosyncrasies' Bookbag. 'a terrific creation, cantankerous and capricious' The Irish Times. 'Roy is particularly adept at mining the emotional intricacies of the relationship between Maya and Diwan Sahib, which also serves to symbolize India's uneasy passage from tradition to modernity' New York Times. 'truly beautiful book. It makes you want to put the clocks back and move to India' Red Online. 'Anuradha Roy is a formidable novelist: reading her elegiac but comic narrative lifts the spirit and brightens the day' Bookgroup Info.

'Tender and comical' Kate Saunders, Sunday Times. 'Her prose is tight with life' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail. 'Fresh and appetizing ... I was captivated' Tabish Khair, Independent. 'Graceful and compassionate ... written in prose that has the precision and radiance of poetry' Neel Mukherjee. 'A vivid evocation of north India. Roy conjures up striking images with the lightest of touches' Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler. 'Roy creates some wonderful, often quite eccentric characters. You can always tell when this is done to perfection when even the smallest bit part characters seem to come to life with a few brief idiosyncrasies' Bookbag. 'a terrific creation, cantankerous and capricious' The Irish Times. 'truly beautiful book. It makes you want to put the clocks back and move to India' Red Online.

Anuradha Roy has worked as a publisher and journalist and is now editor at Permanent Black, an independent press in New Delhi. She was the winner of the Picador-Outlook Non-fiction Prize in 2004, and her first novel An Atlas of Impossible Longing (2008) has been translated into thirteen languages.

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From the widely acclaimed author of "An Atlas of Impossible Longing, " this is a powerful and triumphantly beautiful novel set in contemporary India, about a young woman forging a new life in the foothills of the Himalayas.