WINNER OF THE 1997 MAN BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The quality of Ms. Roy’s narration is so extraordinary—at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple—that the reader remains enthralled all the way through.”—The New York Times Book Review “A novel of real ambition must invent its own language, and this one does.”—John Updike, The New Yorker
Leela Gour Broome is a teacher and committed environmentalist. She has degrees in Western classical music and English Literature. For two decades she has combined music and literature with her love for nature by directing nature and environment camps for kids on her farm with her husband. She has years of experience teaching music and performing arts to children, and…
