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1	Fasting Feasting more books like this by Anita Desai add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Clear light of day more books like this by Anita Desai add to wishlist When two sisters and a brother meet in their childhood home, past and present collide, leaving a sorrowful portrait of sisterly love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Games at Twilight more books like this by Anita Desai add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $9.13! new only from $9.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Diamond Dust & Other Stories more books like this by Desai add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Fire on the Mountain more books like this by Anita Desai add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.05! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Baumgartners Bombay more books like this by Anita Desai add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Turkish Embassy Letters more books like this by Mary Wortley Montagu, Malcolm Jack (Editor), Anita Desai (Introduction by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $3.86! new only from $10.57! \| SVS
8	Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History more books like this by Krishna Dutta, Anita Desai (Introduction by) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $6.88! new only from $11.60! \| SVS
9	Bye-Bye, blackbird. more books like this by Anita Desai add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! new only from $8.00! \| first editions
10	In custody more books like this by Anita Desai add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Zigzag Way more books like this by Anita Desai add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Journey to Ithaca more books like this by Anita Desai add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The quilt and other stories more books like this by Ismat Chughtai add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $46.60! \| first editions
14 view cover	Village by the Sea more books like this by Anita Desai add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.18! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Daughters of the Vicar more books like this by D H Lawrence, Anita Desai (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
16	Cry the Peacock more books like this by Anita Desai add to wishlist see all copies from $4.74! new only from $8.93! \| first editions
17	Where Shall We Go This Summer? more books like this by Anita Desai add to wishlist see all copies from $3.49! new only from $6.13!
18 view cover	Games at Twilight and Other Stories more books like this by Anita Desai add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $172.29! \| first editions
19 view cover	Eye to Eye-Women: Their Words and Worlds more books like this by Vanessa A Baird (Editor), Anita Desai (Introduction by) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $65.92! \| first editions
20 view cover	In Custody: 2tie-In Edition more books like this by Anita Desai add to wishlist An unhappily married, unadventurous, bored college lecturer in a small town goes to a big city to interview a great poet, and is disillusioned. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.29! \| first editions
21 view cover	Essays on India more books like this by Carlo Levi, Antony Shugaar (Translator), Anita Desai (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $6.26! new only from $8.79! \| SVS
22	Scholar and gypsy. more books like this by Anita Desai add to wishlist Perceptive and humorous, these three stories capture the essence of life in India. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
23	The Clear Light of Day more books like this by John Richard Dennett, Anita Desai add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
24	Pursuit of India more books like this by Mitch Epstein, Anita Desai (Introduction by) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $8.94! first editions
25 view cover	Calcutta: A Cultural History more books like this by Krishna Dutta, Anita Desai (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $11.86! new only from $11.86! \| SVS

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