SPINNING A PERFECT YARN

Anuradha Roy handles storytelling with the same deftness with which the potter in her novel moulds his clay

- Latha Anantharaman

THE EARTHSPINNER

by Anuradha Roy

HACHETTE

₹599; 232 pages

A MYTHICAL HORSE WAITS IN the ocean deep, holding all of Shiva’s passions and breathing fire. When the world ends, the horse will emerge. That horse also burns in the heart of the young potter Elango. While he churns out domestic cups and giant hotel garden urns to make a living, he diagrams his horse. In his dreams, he shapes and reshapes it. In the meantime, there is the girl he loves, there is the girl he teaches, and there is the dog with whom he has a relationship that seems to run deepest of all.