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Anita Desai
From three times Booker-shortlisted writer Anita Desai, Rosarita is an exquisite story of art, memory and what happens when the past threatens to re-write the present.
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Like so many other young Westerners in the 1960s and 70s, Matteo leaves his home on the Italian lakes to search for spiritual enlightenment in the ashrams of India. Practical…
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Harjot Banga
This book provides an interdisciplinary framework, seamlessly weaving together historical inquiry and literary exploration to offer a holistic understanding of the enduring impacts of Partition.
Elaine Yee Lin Ho
The notion of thinking as an outsider, and the critical distance which this entails, is a key to an understanding of Desai as writer. Through discussions of short stories and…
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Hailed as unsparing, yet tender and funny, Fasting, Feasting is a splendid novel about siblings and their very different lives in India and America. (The Wall Street Journal)
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Chandra Lipika
This book broadly deals with Anita Desai’s conscious approach to the plight of women in her novels. It focuses on the raw and sincere methods that she, as an author…
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Yogesh Patil
Existentialism is a twentieth century Philosophical movement. It has influenced every walk of life- art, literature, music, painting. This book attempts to disclose hoe Indian English writers were influenced by…
Salman Rushdie
The author of The Stananic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. Rushdie has…
Dr Gaitry Sanyal
In England, the novel established itself as a distinct genre with the works of Daniel Defoe and Richardson in the eighteenth century. Alongside the development of realism in the novel…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Anita Desai’s Games at Twilight, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Sowmya T G Achar
The book is an attempt to explore the image of family in the select works of Anita Desai. It explores the family in urban context critically analyzing the novels viz…
Ashley Batts
This piece is truly an exploration of Indian motherhood, born of both an interest in India and gender studies and also my own personal journey to India in the summer…
A Study Guide for Anita Desai’s A Devoted Son, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Anita Desai’s Studies in the Park, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author…
A Study Guide for Anita Desai’s Diamond Dust , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Award-winning novelist Anita Desai explores time and transformation in three artful novellas, set in modern India.
Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1982.
Puts the spotlight on private universes from India to Canada and New England, from Cornwall to Mexico. This book talks about people who set forth on journeys and find themselves…
Eric is a youngish man, self-conscious, awkward, a buttoned-down North American, a would-be writer, and a traveller in spite of himself. He finds himself on a curious quest for his…
Sisterly love is the focus of this novel, set in Old Delhi against the backdrop of some of India’s most significant historical events, including the death of Gandhi and the…
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…
To the family living in the shabby, dusty house in Delhi, Tara’s visit brings a sharp reminder of life outside tradition. Looking at both the cruelty and the beauty of…
Hugo Baumgartner is a man who doesn’t belong anywhere. He’s a Berlin Jew who travelled to India to escape the Nazis and, after years spent the mercy of his past…
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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.
The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai’s short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the…
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…
A government official who is inspecting a faded mansion of forgotten treasures, comes across the final, shocking gift which is bleeding the museum dry.
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…
Sood Vivek
The focus f this study in the proceeding chapters has been on the quest pattern of the heroines in Anita Desai’s two novels. This study can claim a unique stance…
Singireddy Vanitha
The book is a treatise on an individual’s search for self identity and belonging through the two acclaimed novels of Anita Desai, ‘Cry, the Peacock’ and ‘Fire on the Mountain’…
Jyoti Shikha
In the novels of Thomas Hardy and Anita Desai, we come across that woman who is passive and vain as well as women who are ambitious and independent do not…
Sunitha Venugopal
The book elucidates Anita Desai’s stream of consciousness technique, her maturity and psychological point of view in handling the charcters in her novels. It voices the unvoiced thoughts of Desai’s…
Mrs K
This book is very useful to students, scholars for their reference. This book gives a wide idea of Anita Desai's selected novels.
Mrs V
This book is very useful for the students and scholars of English literature. By reading this book they will come to know a better insight of womanhood how Anita Desai…
A Study Guide for Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
The fight against childhood malnutrition is a world problem, but there is hope in the form of programs that give undernourished kids more power. This good cause, which comes from…
Desai’s classic novel of the Holocaust era is the story of the profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The book follows Hugo Baumgartner as he leaves behind Nazi…
Kailas Bodke,Pandurang Bhabad
The book is a venture to analyze the fictional discourse by snatching attention to the metaphorical composition of the text of the novel. For that some selective novels by Anita…
Gongadi Hampamma
Wife and husband are like two lights that shine more brightly together . We never diverge: we leave and we arrive together. Is that not love? No marriage was closer…
Mrs Emily
this book would make the budding readers more and interested in visiting the wonderful world of Anitha Desai.
Adriana Elena Stoican
This book offers captivating insights into the interaction between the Indian and the American cultural worlds. A fascinating work of research, it illustrates an extraordinary capacity to employ the details…
Rumer Godden
Hailed ‘a small masterpiece’ by Spectator, this is Rumer Godden’s unforgettable evocation of India and of childhood, of innocence and experience.
From the author of Black Narcissus, this acclaimed coming-of-age novel examines the tensions of divorce from a child’s perspective.
In The Lady and the Unicorn Rumer Godden explores the cultural divide in colonial India through a young, forbidden romance.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Originally published in Great Britain in 2017 by Little, Brown.
Hena Ahmad
Deals with the field of postcolonial and Third World feminist studies. This title reevaluates the ways in which Third World women writers interrogate the relationship between woman and nation in…
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lady Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was described by a contemporary, as ‘one of the most extraordary shining characters in the world…’. Her newly edited letters tell of her travels through Europe…
