Diamond Dust & Other Stories
$42.66
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
6 April 2001
Summary
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 out on journeys and find themselves suddenly beyond the pale, or surprisingly back where they started from. Caught up in cycles of hope and disappointment, their lives are ruled by the seasons, or straitjacketed by the conventions of hospitality, friendship and family. In the title st…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099289647 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099289644 |
| Author: | Anita Desai |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 6 April 2001 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
Exquisite…these stories sparkle with the fire of real diamonds. * The Times *Contemporary Indian fiction writers are among the finest in the world, and Desai at her best, as she is throughout this collection, has deservedly won her place alongside them. * Irish Times *Unsentimental, dazzling, funny and achingly sad. * Literary Review *All her stories are full of a confidence in human nature that is a rarity and a pleasure to encounter. * The Spectator *Anita Desai is one of the most brilliant and subtle writers ever to have described the meeting of eastern and western culture. * Alison Lurie *
About The Author
Anita Desai
Born and educated in India, Anita Desai is the author of many novels and short stories, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody and Fasting, Feasting. She is the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Royal Society of Literature.
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