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| author = [[Anuradha Roy (novelist)|Anuradha Roy]]<br />
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| country = India<br />
| language = English<br />
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| set_in = Jarmuli, India<br />
| publisher = [[Hachette India]]<br />
| pub_date = 15 April 2015<br />
| media_type = Print (hardback and softback), e-book, audio<br />
| pages = 256<br />
| awards = 2016 [[DSC Prize for South Asian Literature]]<br />
| isbn = 978-93-5009-936-0<br />
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'''''Sleeping on Jupiter''''' is a novel by [[Anuradha Roy (novelist)|Anuradha Roy]]. It is her third novel and was published in April 2015. 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]].<br />
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==Summary==<br />
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.<br />
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==Publication==<br />
''Sleeping on Jupiter'' was published by [[Hachette India]] in [[hardback]] on 15 April 2015.<ref>{{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]]}}</ref><br />
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==Reception==<br />
''[[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."<ref>{{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]]}}</ref><br />
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''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' wrote "the overlapping stories make for a rich and absorbing consideration of where the past ends and the present begins."<ref>{{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]]}}</ref><br />
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==Awards and honours==<br />
* Shortlist, 2015 [[The Hindu Literary Prize|''The Hindu'' Literary Prize]]<ref>{{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}}</ref><br />
* Longlist, 2015 [[Man Booker Prize]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thebookerprizes.com/news/2015/07/29/man-booker-prize-announces-2015-longlist|title=Man Booker Prize announces 2015 longlist &#124; The Booker Prizes|website=thebookerprizes.com}}</ref><br />
* Winner, 2016 [[DSC Prize for South Asian Literature]]<ref>{{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 |agency=Press Trust of India |date=16 January 2015 |access-date=16 January 2016|last1=India |first1=Press Trust of }}</ref><br />
* Shortlist, 2015 Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award for Fiction<ref>{{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}}</ref><br />
* Shortlist, 2015 Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Fiction Prize<ref>{{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}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:English-language novels]]<br />
[[Category:Novels about child sexual abuse]]<br />
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