![]() As months go by, it is clear she has gone mad. She starts to evince strange symptoms, begins speaking out of turn and is given to obscene outbursts. In time, they produce a son, who is a joy to them both, but the quiet cramp of small-town life becomes anathema to the lonely mother. ![]() ![]() It begins in 1907, when Amulya leaves Calcutta with his young wife, Kananbala, and travels to the backwater of Songarh to open a factory to manufacture herbal potions and perfumes. A sprawling epic of love, class and ambition, it has more in common with Dreiser’s “An American Tragedy” than it does with “The Mahabharata.” In it, a single act of pity rattles down generations to break a caste’s rules, test a family’s mettle and throw together two unlikely childhood friends, who will negotiate every circuit of human love. Apart from its setting just outside Calcutta, Roy’s “Atlas” is hardly distant. ![]() Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĪn Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha RoyĪnuradha Roy’s “An Atlas of Impossible Longing” (Free Press) is a novel to convince us that boldly drawn sagas with larger-than-life characters are still possible in a relentlessly postmodern world. ![]()
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