anuradha roy

A couple of months to go before its US release, All the Lives We Never Lived has a starred review in Publisher's Weekly . Describing it as a "lush and lyrical fusion of history and storytelling", the review goes on to say: "This mesmerizing exploration of the darker consequences of freedom, love, and loyalty is an astonishing display of Roy’s literary prowess" Read the complete review here . Chigozie Obioma, author of The Fishermen , which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize said: " All the Lives We Never Lived is a moving and beautiful story of loss, of the lives of those beloved to us. What makes this novel so special is the sinuous way Anuradha Roy seamlessly and masterfully shuttles between time, overlaying the past with the present, mystery with knowledge to cumulatively create a brilliant tapestry of that is the story." A number of newspapers and book sites listed this as one of their books to look forward to this Fall.

The longlist for the first JCB Prize for Literature contained ten books, among them All the Lives We Never Lived. Describing the book, the jury remarked: "This beautiful novel, set in the southeast Asia of the 1930s, evokes beautiful imagery of places and landscapes. It does its work quietly and with great subtlety, but it is a novel of big ideas." Read more about it here . The JCB Prize for Literature is a Rs 25-lakh award presented each year to a distinguished work of fiction by an Indian author, as selected by the jury.The shortlist will be announced on 3 October. Read more about the other books on the longlist here .