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Winner of the Tata Book of the Year: All the Lives We Never Lived

All the Lives We Never Lived won the Tata Book of the Year Award on the 18th of November in Bombay, India. Speaking of the book, the judges said that its prose was "glittering" and that the book "did not put one foot wrong" in dealing with complex and varying themes. Also on the shortlist were Janice Pariat's Nine-Chambered Heart and Tabish Khair's Night of Happiness.

ALL THE LIVES WE NEVER LIVED IS PUBLISHED IN THE US TODAY

20 November:  Publication Day in the US and Canada.  The pre-publication reviews have been wonderful, and the book has featured in several lists of essential reading, including TIME and WASHINGTON POST . It has also been listed in Bustle , Entertainment Weekly , The Millions , LitHub , Afar , and Shelf Awareness , among others. Book Riot 's quirky Horoscopes and Book Recommendations for November recommends it especially for Librans! "Roy’s skillful blending–of fact and fiction, of personal and political, and of suspense and reward–creates a rich and layered read. But the modern resonances of rising nationalism, in India and beyond, ensure that Roy’s story of what happened in Muntazir transcends its own pages. “Once the letter was read,” Myshkin says, “it would be over and I would have to start waiting again.” It’s a feeling readers may well share." Naina Bajekal, Time "Lyrical, subtle, [and] finely observant... A novel of history, both global and