Sleeping on Jupiter

Sleeping on Jupiter is a novel by Anuradha Roy. It is her third novel and was published in April 2015. 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.

Sleeping on Jupiter
First edition cover
AuthorAnuradha Roy
CountryIndia
LanguageEnglish
Set inJarmuli, India
PublisherHachette India
Publication date
15 April 2015
Media typePrint (hardback and softback), e-book, audio
Pages256
Awards2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
ISBN978-93-5009-936-0 (hardback)
OCLC919002742

Summary

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 assisant, 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.

Publication

Sleeping on Jupiter was published by Hachette India in hardback on 15 April 2015.[1]

Reception

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

References
  1. "Sleeping On Jupiter". Hachette India. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  2. "Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy". Kirkus Reviews. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  3. "Fiction Book Review: Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy". Publishers Weekly. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  4. "The Hindu Prize 2015 Shortlist". The Hindu. 31 October 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  5. "Man Booker Prize announces 2015 longlist | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com.
  6. India, Press Trust of (16 January 2015). "Indian author Anuradha Roy wins USD 50,000 DSC Prize". Business Standard. Press Trust of India. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  7. "6th edition of Tata LitFest to begin from Oct 29". India Today. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  8. "Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize - BLF 2015 - Bangalore Literature Festival". bangaloreliteraturefestival.org. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
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