Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters - the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon.
Games At Twilight
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 melon; the American wife who, homesick for the verdant farmlands of Vermont, turns to the hippies in the Indian hills; the painter living in a slum who fills his canvasses with flowers, birds and landscapes he has never seen.
Reviews:
‘Absolutely first-rate…absorbing’ –Observer
‘Anita Desai is one of the most brilliant and subtle writers ever to have described the meeting of eastern and western culture’-- Alison Lurie
‘As finely written atmospheric pieces alone the stories would be memorable…As social documents they are absorbing. The volume’s profound theme is the tension between convention and exploration, family solidarity and individualism…An admirably humane and responsible achievement’-- Hermione Lee, Observer
‘Desai has a gift of opening up a closed world and making it clearly visible’ --- Sunday Times
About the Author : Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her novels Fasting Feasting, Clear Light of Day and In Custody were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as a Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge. She teaches in the Writing Program at M.I.T. and divides her time between India, Massachusetts and England.
Author: Anita Desai
ISBN: 0099428539
Size: 12.9cm X 19.8cm
Pages: 137
Price: Rs.369/-
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Packing Weight | 0.25 kg |
Author | Anita Desai |
Publisher | VINTAGE |
Page count | 137 |