{"product_id":"called-by-the-hills-a-home-in-the-himalaya-9780063491830","title":"Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book about building a home and a wild garden on the edge of a Himalayan forest, illuminated by the author's own watercolors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen acclaimed novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in the hill station of Ranikhet, they decide it is where they will now live. Fresh from the neon-lit publishing offices of Delhi, Roy is initially bemused by the gentle pace of life in the mountains but then won over: spellbound by the landscape, taken to the heart of the rural community, and adopted by four mountain dogs and counting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Roy tries to rebuild the cottage and create a garden, she encounters nature at its most fierce, beautiful, and vulnerable, and over twenty-five years bears witness to the destructive impact of global warming on the alpine ecosystem. What emerges is a tender and intimate portrait of her surroundings in which rugged nature, lovable dogs, and recalcitrant humans come together to captivating effect. Written with unsentimental clarity, humor, and poignancy, this is a story of profound transformations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anuradha Roy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e HarperOne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.63w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063491830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoy, Anuradha:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnuradha Roy\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and potter. She was born in Kolkata and grew up mostly in Hyderabad, India. She has written five novels. Her first, \u003ci\u003eAn Atlas of Impossible Longing\u003c\/i\u003e, was translated into sixteen languages. \u003ci\u003eSleeping on Jupiter\u003c\/i\u003e, her third novel, won the DSC Prize for Fiction 2016 and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015. \u003ci\u003eAll the Lives We Never Lived\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2022 Sahitya Akademi Award, among India's highest literary honours, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her non-fiction has been published in \u003ci\u003eGuardian, Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIndian Express, LitHub\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. Roy lives in Ranikhet, where she is a graphic designer at Permanent Black, a scholarly press she runs with her partner.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Anuradha Roy \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48397131120797,"sku":"9780063491830","price":29.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_f3616fa4-c169-470d-b004-d0d1e4eef496.jpg?v=1781073905","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/called-by-the-hills-a-home-in-the-himalaya-9780063491830","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}