Subtly evokes the traumatic history of India after the British departed in a haunting story of a Hindu family in Old Delhi and the relationships among four absorbing people

Clear Light of Day

Literature & Fiction

DESAI, Anita

British & Irish

Harpercollins

Nanda Kaul, a woman remote in her self-imposed solitude among the Simla hills of India, her strange and silent great-granddaughter, and the broken old woman who is her only friend are touched in varying ways by the violence of living

Fire on the Mountain

Contemporary

India's struggle to reconcile its past with its present is paralleled by the trials of Deven, a teacher smitten with poetry, as she comes to terms with reality

In Custody

From the author of Fasting, Feasting comes her visually and emotionally haunting new novel. 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 Día 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

Vintage Books

Eric is a youngish man, self-conscious, awkward, a buttoned-down North American, a would-be writer, and a traveller in spite of himself. Susceptible to bossy women, he finds himself in the wake of one in Mexico, where he is overwhelmed at first with sensory overload, but is gradually seduced - by the strangeness, the colour

Genre Fiction

Vintage

BAUMGARTINERS BOMBAY

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Penguin??Books

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.

Games at Twilight: And Other Stories

Literary

Evokes the traumatic history of India after the departure of the British in a story of a Hindu family in Old Delhi and the relationships among four people

The Clear Light of Day

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Clear Light of Day

Fire on the Mountain

In Custody

The Zigzag Way

The Zigzag Way

BAUMGARTINERS BOMBAY

Fire on the Mountain

Games at Twilight: And Other Stories

The Clear Light of Day

In Custody