The Fertile Earth - Couverture souple

Rao, Ruthvika

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1250899974 ISBN 13 : 9781250899972

Editeur : Flatiron Books, 2025

Synopsis

FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S 2024 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE - An unforgettable story of love and resistance surrounding two young people born across social lines, set against a tumultuous political landscape in India.

"[A] heart-wrenching tale of forbidden love" --THE WASHINGTON POST

In a rural Indian village, two families live on opposite sides of the class divide. On one side are the landowning aristocrats; on the other are the landless indentured.

But Vijaya, Sree, Krishna, and Ranga--the children of these families--are carrying on a secret friendship. One summer, when a man-eating tiger attacks the village, the four make an ill-advised plan to go into the jungle to capture it. The hunt, and its catastrophic end, entwines their fates, and the repercussions play out over the next decade as they come of age, with violent conflict erupting between the classes.

Shortlisted for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Ruthvika Rao's The Fertile Earth is a novel in which the private rites of friendship, kinship, and great love collide with a political revolution and the forces of beauty and power are intertwined into "a masterpiece" (Booklist, starred review).

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ruthvika Rao is from Hyderabad, India. She is the author of The Fertile Earth, which was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Chautauqua prize, and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas prize. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' workshop and lives in Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Flatiron Books
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250899974
• ISBN 13: 9781250899972
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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