![]() ![]() With the completion of the terracotta horse, a community is enraged, and the pair of lovers flee into exile. One day, a lost dog, Chinna, appears, adopting the potter. ![]() A neighbor, Sara, becomes both witness and chronicler of his days, as she entwines herself into his life as his apprentice. Elango is a Hindu rickshaw driver and potter whose dream is to create a terracotta horse, and whose crime is falling in love with Zohra, the granddaughter of a blind, Muslim calligrapher. The Earthspinner deftly revisits the themes that Roy’s novels are well known for-history, memory, myth, and love. And so, in an effort to celebrate underappreciated art forms, ancient traditions, and unique occupations, I present a list of books that have informed the texture of my writing. Perhaps it is my own training as a traditional printmaker that inevitably directs my attention to these now-rare, highly intricate, labor-intensive disciplines that have sadly been swallowed by the modern and automated. The Book of Everlasting Things is at its heart a love story, but it’s also very much about characters who continue to practice traditional crafts-perfumery, distillation, calligraphy and illumination, paper-making, Ayurvedic medicine, carpet weaving, leatherwork and tanning-in a changing world. ![]()
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