The Artist of Disappearance

The Artist of Disappearance PDF Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547577451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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Award-winning novelist Anita Desai explores time and transformation in these three artful novellas

The Artist of Disappearance

The Artist of Disappearance PDF Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547577451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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Book Description
Award-winning novelist Anita Desai explores time and transformation in these three artful novellas

Cry, the Peacock

Cry, the Peacock PDF Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks
ISBN: 8122200850
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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This book is the story of a young girl obsessed by a childhood prophecy of disaster. The author builds up an atmosphere of tension and oppression, in the middle of an Indian summer.

Anita Desai as an Artist

Anita Desai as an Artist PDF Author: Indirā Śivaṇṇa
Publisher: Creative Book Company (New Delhi)
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Study on imagery and lyrical style in the works of Anita Desai, b. 1937, an Indian fiction writer in English.

The Village by the Sea

The Village by the Sea PDF Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN: 9788177649079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Fire on the Mountain

Fire on the Mountain PDF Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184003269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Gone are the days when Nanda Kaul watched over her family and played the part of Vice-Chancellor’s wife. Leaving her children behind in the real world, the busier world, she has chosen to spend her last years alone in the mountains in Kasauli, in a secluded bungalow called Carignano. Until one summer her great-granddaughter Raka is dispatched to Kasauli – and everything changes. Nanda is at first dismayed at this break in her preciously acquired solitude. Fiercely taciturn, Raka is, like her, quite untamed. The girl prefers the company of apricot trees and animals to her great-grandmother’s, and spends her afternoons rambling over the mountainside. But the two are more alike than they know. Throughout the hot, long summer, Nanda’s old, hidden dependencies and wounds come to the surface, ending, inevitably, in tragedy. Marvellous yet restrained, Fire on the Mountain speaks of the past and its unshakable hold over the present.

Voices in the City

Voices in the City PDF Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks
ISBN: 8122200532
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Based on the life of the middle class intellectuals of Calcutta, it is an unforgettable story of a Bohemian brother and his two sisters caught in the cross-currents of changing social values. In many ways the story reflects a vivid picture of India's social transition - a phase in which the older elements are not altogether dead, and the emergent ones not fully evolved.

Fasting, Feasting

Fasting, Feasting PDF Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448104556
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1999 BOOKER PRIZE Uma, the plain, spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions, unlike her ambitious younger sister Aruna, who brings off a 'good' marriage, and brother Arun, the disappointing son and heir who is studying in America. Across the world in Massachusetts, life with the Patton family is bewildering for Arun in the alien culture of freedom, freezers and paradoxically self-denying self-indulgence.

In Custody

In Custody PDF Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184003293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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In this sensitive portrayal of human nature, Anita Desai, one of India’s foremost writers, paints an intimate portrait of lives impacted by the quest for identity and purpose. Deven, a Hindi lecturer in small-town Mirpore, lives a humdrum existence. A chance to interview Nur—India’s greatest living Urdu poet—offers him an escape from his dreary life. But the Nur he meets is an enfeebled man, surrounded by clashing wives and preying sycophants. Deven’s decision to be the custodian of Nur’s verse gives birth to an unusual alliance between the two. Stimulating and thought provoking, In Custody is a brilliant parable lamenting the gradual corrosion of culture and tradition in the face of modernity, and a dazzling study of the complexity of human relationships.

The Zigzag Way

The Zigzag Way PDF Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618042159
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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"The zigzag paths of these characters converge on the Day of the Dead, bringing together past and present in a moment of powerful epiphany."--BOOK JACKET.

The Museum of Final Journeys

The Museum of Final Journeys PDF Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547677871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43

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Disappointed by his professional and social position, an entitled and officious junior civil servant imagines that his life will change when a mysterious old man promises to lead him to a museum filled with priceless treasures.