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Fasting Feasting

Fasting Feasting more books like this

by Anita Desai

Uma is the eldest and plainest child in an Indian family and, well into middle age, she is still single, caring for her aging parents. Her privileged, American-educated brother becomes involved with a Massachusetts family whose luxurious lifestyle contrasts starkly with the life of Uma and her parents back in India. Told first from Uma's point of ...

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Clear light of day

Clear light of day more books like this

by Anita Desai

When two sisters and a brother meet in their childhood home, past and present collide, leaving a sorrowful portrait of sisterly love.

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Games at Twilight

Games at Twilight more books like this

by Anita Desai

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. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched with sadness, Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters - the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a ...

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Diamond Dust & Other Stories

Diamond Dust & Other Stories more books like this

by Desai

Whole lives come into focus in this rich and diverse collection, as Desai trains her luminous spotlight on private universes from India to Canada and New England, from Cornwall to Mexico. Her protagonists set forth on journeys and find themselves suddenly beyond the pale, or surprisingly back where they started from. Caught up in the cycles of ...

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Fire on the Mountain

Fire on the Mountain more books like this

by Anita Desai

Nanda Kul is old. She has chosen to spend her last years high in the mountains, but her solitude is broken with the arrival of her great-granddaughter, Raka. Through the long hot summer, hidden dependencies and old wounds are uncovered, until tragedy becomes inevitable. From the author of CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY and IN CUSTODY.

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Baumgartners Bombay

Baumgartners Bombay more books like this

by Anita Desai

As a child, Hugo Baumgartner lost his family to the Nazis. Growing up in India, he is unsure of his identity, and unable to commit himself to either culture.

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Turkish Embassy Letters

Turkish Embassy Letters more books like this

by Mary Wortley Montagu, Malcolm Jack (Editor), Anita Desai (Introduction by)

The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu's travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty ...

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Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History

Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History more books like this

by Krishna Dutta, Anita Desai (Introduction by)

A Calcutta native explores the multiple paradoxes of the city, giving personal insight into its unique history and modern identity as reflected in literature, cinema, and music. Illustrations. Maps.

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Bye-Bye, blackbird. more books like this

by Anita Desai

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In custody

In custody more books like this

by Anita Desai

Asked to interview India's greatest poet, Nur, Deven sees a way to escape the miseries of life as a small-town scholar. But the old man he finds deep in the bazaars of Old Delhi bears no resemblance to the idol of his youth. Deven is fooled, bullied and cheated, and drawn into a new captivity.

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The Zigzag Way

The Zigzag Way more books like this

by Anita Desai

When he accompanies his girlfriend to Mexico where she works as a medical researcher, Eric--a historian and a bit of a loner--finds himself with plenty of time on his hands, and he can't resist the opportunity to research some of his own family history. His grandfather traveled to Mexico from England 100 years ago to work at a silver mine in the ...

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Journey to Ithaca more books like this

by Anita Desai

Like many young Westerners in the 60s and 70s, Matteo leaves his home in Italy to search for spiritual enlightenment in India. Parallel to this narrative runs the "Mother"'s story, from her childhood in Egypt and her travels in Paris, Venice and New York, to her search for divine love in India.

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The quilt and other stories more books like this

by Ismat Chughtai

This collection of stories (translated from Urdu by Tahita Naqvi and Syeda S. Hameed) ably fleshes out the intimacies of middle-class Indian women's lives with wit and irony.

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Village by the Sea more books like this

by Anita Desai

This is a story of survival set in a small fishing village near Bombay. Lila and Hari, aged 13 and 12, struggle to keep the family, including two young sisters, going when their mother is ill and their father usually the worse for drink. When Hari goes to Bombay to find work, Lila seems to be responsible for everything. Although the book paints a ...

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Daughters of the Vicar more books like this

by D H Lawrence, Anita Desai (Foreword by)

A bleak, unrelenting tale of poverty and loss, Lawrence's Daughters of the Vicar chillingly examines man's increasing inability to love and be loved. Looking for acceptance from his new congregation, the Revd Ernest Lindley cannot long ignore the fact that his parishioners are far from welcoming. Rather than confront such hostility, the Lindleys ...

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Cry the Peacock more books like this

by Anita Desai

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Where Shall We Go This Summer? more books like this

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Games at Twilight and Other Stories more books like this

by Anita Desai

First published in 1978 and now reissued in a new cover style, a collection of 11 short stories from the author of BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY. Includes tales about an American wife who, homesick for rural Vermont, turns to the hippies of the Indian hills for consolation; and a painter who renders pictures of creatures he has never seen.

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Eye to Eye-Women: Their Words and Worlds more books like this

by Vanessa A Baird (Editor), Anita Desai (Introduction by)

Showcases writing by women from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Arranged in sections headed "Love and Life", "Work and Play", "Culture and Creativity", "Environment" amd "Politics and Safety", this book is enhanced by more than 40 colour photographs.

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In Custody: 2tie-In Edition more books like this

by Anita Desai

An unhappily married, unadventurous, bored college lecturer in a small town goes to a big city to interview a great poet, and is disillusioned.

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Essays on India more books like this

by Carlo Levi, Antony Shugaar (Translator), Anita Desai (Foreword by)

With his typically perceptive insights, Levi writes evocatively on his experiences in India: his interview with Pandit Nehru; his tour of a tent city at a political convention; his meeting with a Hindu nationalist party. This is a new addition to the tradition of Western writing on India, made all the more fascinating by the influence that Levi's ...

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Scholar and gypsy. more books like this

by Anita Desai

Perceptive and humorous, these three stories capture the essence of life in India.

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The Clear Light of Day more books like this

by John Richard Dennett, Anita Desai

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Pursuit of India more books like this

by Mitch Epstein, Anita Desai (Introduction by)

This book reveals the path of an outsider determined to overcome all emotional and cultural obstacles in a bid to become an insider. Provides an emphatic insight into the true Indian experience, stripped of mystical and picturesque overlays. 50 color photographs.

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Calcutta: A Cultural History more books like this

by Krishna Dutta, Anita Desai (Foreword by)

A Calcutta native explores the multiple paradoxes of the city, giving personal insight into its unique history and modern identity as reflected in literature, cinema, and music. Illustrations. Maps.

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