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

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on 15 April 2015. It was longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2015

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. It won the 2016

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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

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. She meets three old women while on a train, Gouri, Latika, and Vidya. Her production assistant, 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.

Reception

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'' 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." ''

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'' wrote "the overlapping stories make for a rich and absorbing consideration of where the past ends and the present begins."

Awards and honours

* Shortlist, 2015 ''The Hindu'' Literary Prize * Longlist, 2015 Man Booker Prize * Winner, 2016

* Shortlist, 2015 Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award for Fiction * Shortlist, 2015 Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Fiction Prize

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sleeping on Jupiter 2015 Indian novels Novels by Anuradha Roy (novelist) Hachette India books Novels set in India English-language novels Novels about child sexual abuse First-person narrative novels Third-person narrative novels Novels with multiple narrators Novels set in Norway