Idol Love

by Anuradha Roy, Anuradha Marwah-Roy

Love is essentially unfair in Idol Love, a novel set in the immediate present and the foreseeable future. There is always a lover and a beloved, a worshipper and an image.

229 pages, Hardcover

First published April 12, 2001

About the author

Anuradha Roy was educated in Hyderabad, Calcutta and Cambridge (UK). She is an editor at Permanent Black, an independent press publishing in South Asian history, politics and culture. She lives mainly in Ranikhet, India, with her husband Rukun Advani and their dog, Biscoot.

Reviews

[Mansi Gupta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Set in a futuristic India, this dystopian novel is a heart wrenching account of women’s right to love, in a society ruled by religious men.
After Khaled Hosseni if there is a fiction writer whose work has moved me, it is Ms Roy.