Sleeping on Jupiter
{{short description|Novel by Anuradha Roy}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
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| author = Anuradha Roy
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| cover_artist = Monica Reyes Alvarez
| language = English
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| set_in = Jarmuli, India
| publisher = Hachette India
| pub_date = 15 April 2015
| pub_place = Gurgaon
| media_type = Print (hardback and softback), e-book, audio
| pages = 256
| awards = 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
| isbn = 978-93-5009-936-0
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| oclc = 919002742
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Sleeping on Jupiter is a novel by Anuradha Roy. It is her third novel and was published by Hachette India on 15 April 2015.{{Cite web |title=Sleeping On Jupiter |url=https://www.hachetteindia.com/TitleDetails.aspx?titleId=45090 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910060043/https://www.hachetteindia.com/TitleDetails.aspx?titleId=45090 |archive-date=10 September 2015 |access-date=12 November 2020 |website=Hachette India}} It was longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2015 The Hindu Literary Prize. It won the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
Summary
Nomi Frederiksen travels to Jarmuli, a temple town in India's coastal northeast, to produce a documentary film. Nomi was born in India but was later orphaned, and sent to an ashram in Jarmuli. She was subjected to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse while at the ashram. She later escaped and was adopted, moving to Norway. She meets three old women while on a train, Gouri, Latika, and Vidya. Her production assistant, Suraj, is Vidya's son and is troubled by his ongoing divorce. The chapters alternate between Nomi's first-person narration and third person narratives following the novel's secondary characters.
Reception
Kirkus Reviews praised the first-person narration of Nomi but criticized the secondary characters for doing "nothing to move the story forward" and wrote that the novel lacked a "satisfying resolution."{{Cite web |date=21 June 2016 |title=Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/anuradha-roy/sleeping-on-jupiter/ |access-date=12 November 2020 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}
Publishers Weekly wrote "the overlapping stories make for a rich and absorbing consideration of where the past ends and the present begins."{{Cite web |date=4 July 2016 |title=Fiction Book Review: Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55597-751-1 |access-date=12 November 2020 |website=Publishers Weekly}}
Awards and honours
- Shortlist, 2015 The Hindu Literary Prize{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/literary-review/the-hindu-prize-2015-shortlist/article7813562.ece |title=The Hindu Prize 2015 Shortlist |newspaper=The Hindu |date=31 October 2015 |access-date=2 December 2015}}
- Longlist, 2015 Man Booker Prize{{Cite web|url=https://thebookerprizes.com/news/2015/07/29/man-booker-prize-announces-2015-longlist|title=Man Booker Prize announces 2015 longlist | The Booker Prizes|website=thebookerprizes.com|access-date=12 November 2020|archive-date=2 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702162723/https://thebookerprizes.com/news/2015/07/29/man-booker-prize-announces-2015-longlist|url-status=dead}}
- Winner, 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature{{cite news |url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/indian-author-anuradha-roy-wins-usd-50-000-dsc-prize-116011600788_1.html |title=Indian author Anuradha Roy wins USD 50,000 DSC Prize |work=Business Standard |date=16 January 2015 |access-date=16 January 2016|agency=Press Trust of India }}
- Shortlist, 2015 Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award for Fiction{{Cite web |date=15 October 2015 |title=6th edition of Tata LitFest to begin from Oct 29 |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/pti-feed/story/6th-edition-of-tata-litfest-to-begin-from-oct-29-495639-2015-10-15 |access-date=14 November 2020 |website=India Today |language=en}}
- Shortlist, 2015 Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Fiction Prize{{Cite web |title=Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize - BLF 2015 - Bangalore Literature Festival |url=http://bangaloreliteraturefestival.org/archives/year-2015/blf-book-prize/ |access-date=14 November 2020 |website=bangaloreliteraturefestival.org}}