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Anita Desai

    June 24, 1937

    Anita Desai is a celebrated Indian novelist whose works delve into the psychological landscape of human experience. Her prose is marked by its delicate observation and keen insight into the emotions and inner lives of her characters. Desai masterfully explores themes of alienation, the search for identity, and the complex relationships that shape our lives. Her style, both poetic and penetrating, offers readers a deeply resonant and thought-provoking literary journey.

    Anita Desai
    Fire On The Mountain
    The Zigzag Way
    The Village By The Sea
    Clear Light of Day
    The Complete Stories
    Games At Twilight
    • Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city. schovat popis

      Games At Twilight
    • The Complete Stories

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.9(52)Add rating

      Anita Desai is one of the greats of the modern short story ... The whole collection breathes old-style quality Phil Baker The Sunday Times

      The Complete Stories
    • To the family living in a shabby, dusty house in Delhi, Tara's visit brings a sharp reminder of life outside tradition. For Bim coping endlessly with their problems, there is renewal of the old jealousies for, unlike her sister, she has failed to escape.

      Clear Light of Day
    • The Village By The Sea

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      3.7(3608)Add rating

      Forgotten by the evolution of the centuries and indifferent to the advances of the twentieth century, Thul, a tiny fishing village not far from Bombay, continues to follow those rhythms of the seasons that have always been handed down. Hari and Lila were born and raised in the village, but now their family is falling into despair: the father to alcohol while the mother is seriously ill. As for money, that there is not even enough to meet the most basic needs between.

      The Village By The Sea
    • The Zigzag Way

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      2.9(10)Add rating

      Eric is an uncertain, awkward young man, a would-be writer, and a traveller in spite of himself. Happy to follow his more confident girlfriend to Mexico, he is overwhelmed with sensory overload, but gradually seduced - by the strangeness, the colour, the mysteries of an older world. He finds himself on a curious quest for his own family in a 'ghost' mining town, now barely inhabited, where almost a hundred years earlier young Cornish miners worked the rich seams in the earth. On the D-a de los Muertos, the feast day when the locals celebrate and remember their dead, the various strands of the novel come together hauntingly, bringing together past and present in a moment of quiet, powerful epiphany.

      The Zigzag Way
    • Nanda Kaul is old. It is an intrusion Nanda Kaul deeply resents, but this child has a capacity to change things. Through the long hot summer months hidden dependencies and old wounds are uncovered, until tragedy seems as inevitable as a forest fire on the hillsides surrounding the villa. schovat popis

      Fire On The Mountain
    • Journey to Ithaca

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      He believes he finds it at the feet of 'the Mother', but down-to-earth Sophie, who accompanies him, does not find her inspiring so much as mysterious, and decides to trace the Mother's own story - from her travels with an Indian dance troupe in Paris, Venice and New York, to her search for divine love in India. schovat popis

      Journey to Ithaca
    • Diamond Dust and Other Stories

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.4(40)Add rating

      This is a collection of stories where the protagonists set out on journeys and find themselves suddenly beyond the pale, or back where they started from. A beloved dog brings chaos, and a businessman sees his own death.

      Diamond Dust and Other Stories
    • Matteo and Sophie join the 1970s flight of young Europeans to India. Matteo - Italian, raised in the luscious countryside around Lake Como, restless since childhood - has been introduced by a tutor to Hermann Hesse's The Journey to the East, and it opens in him a desperate longing. Sophie - German, practical, worldly - is willing to follow him to the ends of the earth. In India, together they visit swamis, gurus, ashrams - always searching. Matteo is seeking spiritual enlightenment, but for Sophie fulfillment lies in earthly love. And when they meet a holy woman known as the Mother, the differences between them seem to explode. When we learn the Mother's story, we see it as an earlier version of their own - the story of a young girl growing up in Cairo and finding her way East by joining a troupe of Indian dancers she has met in Europe. Her journey, a young woman's daring progress through Paris and Venice and New York, until she finds her moment of transcendence in India, comments on, and gives added breadth to, the young couple's quest.

      Baumgartner's Bombay
    • The Artist of Disappearance

      • 156 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      3.3(44)Add rating

      Features such novellas as "The Museum of Final Journeys" and "Translator, Translated". In "The Museum of Final Journeys", an unnamed government official is called upon to inspect a faded mansion of forgotten treasures, each sent home by the absent, itinerant master. As he is taken through the estate, he reaches the final - greatest - gift of all.

      The Artist of Disappearance