Анурадха Рой

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 A stark and unflinching novel by a spellbinding storyteller, about religion, love and violence in the modern world. A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, a distracted air. She looks Indian, yet she is somehow not. The sudden violence of what happens next leaves the other passengers gasping. The train...

On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a family lives in solitude in their vast new house. Here, lives intertwine and unravel. A widower struggles with his love for an unmarried cousin. Bakul, a motherless daughter, runs wild with Mukunda, an orphan of unknown caste adopted by the family. Confined in a room at the top of the house, a matriarch goes slowly mad; her husband searches for its cau...

На всю жизнь прилепилось к Чанду Розарио детское прозвище, которое он получил "в честь князя Мышкина, страдавшего эпилепсией аристократа, из романа Достоевского „Идиот“". И неудивительно, ведь Мышкин Чанд Розарио и вправду из чудаков. Он немолод, небогат, работает озеленителем в родном городке в предгорьях Гималаев и очень гордится своим "наследием миру" — аллеями прекрасных деревьев, которые за д...