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Sleeping on Jupiter
Written by Anuradha Roy
Narrated by Deepti Gupta
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, and 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 terminates at Jarmuli, a temple town by the sea. Here, among pilgrims, priests, and ashrams, three old women disembark only to encounter the girl once again. What is someone like her doing in this remote corner, which attracts only worshippers? Over the next five days, the old women live out their long planned dream of a holiday together; their temple guide finds ecstasy in forbidden love; and the girl is joined by a photographer battling his own demons. The full force of the evil and violence beneath the serene surface of the town becomes evident when their lives overlap and collide. Unexpected connections are revealed between devotion and violence, friendship and fear as Jarmuli is revealed as a place with a long, dark past that transforms all who encounter it.
Author
Anuradha Roy
Anuradha Roy is the author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing, The Folded Earth, All The Lives We Never Lived, and Sleeping on Jupiter—which won the DSC Prize for Fiction 2016 and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2015. She lives in Ranikhet, India.
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Reviews for Sleeping on Jupiter
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautiful! Three stories going on and all are interconnected. This takes place in a seaside town on the Bay of Bengal. Three matrons, a young man and a young woman are all looking for something they won't find. This will confirm your disappointment in humans, but confirm your conviction that this author has a voice that needs to be heard.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I am not sure quite what to make of this story set in a temple resort on the east coast of India, but it was certainly intriguing. Nomi is a girl orphaned by war, then brought up in an abusive ashram, who has escaped and eventually been adopted by a British woman. She returns to the resort as a young woman working as a researcher for a film, but really to investigate her own background. Her partner on this trip is Suraj, a spoiled middle aged rich boy who is still haunted by a recent divorce. Then there are the three old women (Gouri, Latika and Vidya) who have come to the town on a holiday. Finally there is Badal, who works as a temple guide who has an unrequited crush on a boy who works for a beach tea seller.The plot is quite complicated, and the paths of these characters cross in all sorts of unexpected ways (with rather too many coincidences for my liking), and the ending is unresolved and rather enigmatic. There are plenty of fine descriptive passages, and Roy can certainly write.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is one of those beautifully written books that I'm going to totally forget about six months from now. The writing is lovely, I'm all about books set in India, everything about it is just fine, but nothing really stood out as special to me.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This short, beautifully written, sometimes heartbreaking novel kept calling me back, and I'm in awe of the author's ability to create create living breathing characters and evoke Indian settings and culture such that I almost feel like I've visited the subcontinent myself. I'm not surprised that the book was long listed for the Booker Prize.As the book opens as Nomi, a documentary filmmaker who experienced a series of personal tragedies as a child, and three older women, all longtime friends, are sharing a train car while traveling to Jarmuli, a temple filled town by the sea. Intense and vivid, the story takes us into Nomi's past and follows the lives of several other characters who Nomi and the three friends encounter. Though Sleeping on Jupiter is short enough that it could be read quickly I didn't want to rush through it. The story is too rich. I'd read one section, then put the book down for a while to give myself time to absorb it.