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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2011 GUY ORIENTAL LITERARY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE HINDU LITERARY PRIZE FOR BEST MISINFORMATION 2011 WITH HER DEBUT NOVEL, An Atlas of Difficult Yearning, Anuradha Roy’s beautiful storytelling immediately gained readers’ minds all over the world, and the novel was called among the best books of the entire year by The Washington Post and The Seattle Times. Today, Roy has returned with another masterpiece that's currently generating worldwide reward interest, an evocative and deeply moving story of a lady creating a new life for himself amid the foothills of the Himalaya. Eager to keep a personal misfortune behind, Maya abandons himself to the rhythms of the small town, where people co-exist peacefully with nature. But all isn't because it appears, and she quickly discovers that no sanctuary is distant enough to keep out today's modern world.