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Folded Earth (2011)

by Anuradha Roy(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0857388312 (ISBN13: 9780857388315)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Quercus

review 1: The setting takes place in the town of Ranikhet in the Himalayan foothills. The descriptions of the area are really lovely. Maya, the main character has come to the isolated village to recoverfrom the unexpected death of her husband, who died on a hike. Some of her characters are "hill people" who are uneducated but seem to have an uncanny ability to blend with the nature and the animals of the area. Some of the other characters are very educated. Its interesting to watchthe way the educated and the hill people interact. Its beautiful story.
review 2: This gently-written novel is set in the Himalayas, and it invokes the place beautifully. It’s the story of Maya, a young widow who runs away from everyone and everything she knows, and makes a new life fo... morer herself in a mountain village. It starts out slowly, as she deals with her grief and gets to know the people around her. The reader is drawn into their stories, especially that of Charu, the young cowherd who learns to read in order to read her lover’s letters, and Diwan Sahib, an old man of taste and discrimination. Maya begins as an observer, and at first in this novel, the reader feels a little distant as well. Gradually, she begins to re-enter her life, first as the teacher of Charu and the companion of Diwan Sahib, and then later as the lover of his nephew Veer. But when she dares to love, she stumbles headlong into everything she tried to flee. The writing is beautiful, light, poetic without ever being sentimental. less

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