Nayantara Roy | The Magnificent Ruins
About this episode
Molly Southgate interviews debut author Nayantara Roy about her novel 'The Magnificent Ruins', exploring themes of family, estrangement, and legacy.
🎙 Nayatara Roy – The Magnificent Ruins In this episode of Read Between the Lines , Molly Southgate sits down with debut author Nayantara Roy to discuss her sweeping and powerful new novel, The Magnificent Ruins . 📖 About the Book – The Magnificent Ruins It is the summer of 2015, and Lila De is on the verge of a breakthrough in her career at a prestigious New York publishing house. But when she gets a call from her mother in India, informing her that she's inherited her family's sprawling estate, she must confront the legacy of an extended family that she thought she left behind sixteen years ago. Returning to Kolkata reunites Lila with her mother after a decade of estrangement, and then there are her grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins, all of whom still live in the house, all of whom resent her sudden inheritance. To make matters more complicated, her first boyfriend seeks her out when she arrives, and her star author—and occasional lover—is suddenly determined to make things serious. As Lila tries to come to terms with both past and present, long-suppressed secrets from her family emerge, culminating in an act of shocking violence, and she must finally reckon with her…
Topics covered
- debut author
- family legacy
- estrangement
- secrets
- inheritance
- violence
Keywords
- Nayantara Roy
- The Magnificent Ruins
- family
- estrangement
- inheritance
- secrets
- violence
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