Living
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Anjali Joseph was born in Bombay in 1978. She read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has taught English at the Sorbonne, written for the Times of India in Bombay and been a Commissioning Editor for ELLE (India). Her first novel, Saraswati Park (2010), won the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Betty Trask Prize and India's Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction. Another Country is her second novel.
`An extraordinary portrait of two lives that moves between Norwich and smalltown India poses fundamental questions about existence ... The Living asks, with a great, moving, unostentatious urgency, and a groundswell that remains with you long after you've read it, a question that probably only the novel, as a form, can ask: how do these moments and events add up to "our" life, and what is it in our awareness that leads to this sense of ownership, especially when awareness is extinguished recurrently at night, or with drunkenness or fatigue? How, on waking, do these memories and lacerations once more become our own? Joseph's is a deep and unusual talent; she attends to questions for which not every novelist is equipped. The Living is an exceptional, unexpected work' Amit Chaudhuri, Guardian `This is the award-winning Joseph's third novel and its restraint, precision and assurance confirm that she is a rare talent' Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail `Rather like a Dardenne Brothers or Ken Loach film ... The moment in itself is forever charged by complexity and sometimes, no small amount of wonder ... This third novel is her most satisfying and accomplished, speaking its wisdom in whispers' Arifa Akbar, Independent `The novel is best when excavating inner lives, and the most satisfying scenes deal with characters' seething discontent with life' Anita Sethi, Observer `A beautiful and profound book that distils, with uncanny precision and truthfulness, the flow and movement of inner lives deep under the surface of things. Joseph has dug at one of the hardest spots in the terrain of form and come up with a luminous and rare jewel' Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others
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