![]() ![]() Its author, a first-time novelist, is no one you’ve heard of, and yet she is also no stranger to books. ![]() This, you think, is the feeling you had as you read “ Great Expectations” or “ Sophie’s Choice” or “ The Kite Runner.” This is why you read fiction at all.Īnuradha Roy’s “ An Atlas of Impossible Longing” is such a book, a novel to convince us that boldly drawn sagas with larger-than-life characters are still possible in a relentlessly postmodern world. And then, suddenly, you are swept away in a tale that is bristling with incident, steeped in the human condition, buffeted by winds of fate. Before long, you are surrendering to the voice of a confident narrator, the arc of an unfamiliar story. But as you slip into the book’s pages, you sense you are entering a singular creation, a richly populated world. No famous name on the spine will suggest what’s in store. No “news hook” will have brought you to it. Why you peck like a magpie past the bright glitter of publishers’ promises. Every once in a great while, a novel comes along to remind you why you rummage through shelves in the first place. ![]()
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