The Artist of Disappearance
$35.55
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2012
Summary
A jewel of a book from India’s finest living woman writer.
A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas make up Anita Desai’s exquisite new book. Set in modern India, but where history still casts a long shadow, the stories move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the past, and to characters who are, each in their own way, masters of self-effacement.
Rich and evocative, remarkable in their clarity and sensuous in their telling, these stories remind us of the extraordina…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099553953 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099553953 |
| Author: | Anita Desai |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2012 |
| Weight: | 128g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
Profoundly elegiac
Profoundly elegiac – Margaret Drabble * New Statesman *From a web of connections, Desai spins stories of history and loss that move the reader not with epiphanies, but through the sheer beauty of her storytelling * Time Out *Elegantly paced and smartly crafted – Fatima Bhutto * Financial Times *Anita Desai writes exquisitely – Allan Massie * Scotsman *Bewitchingly beautiful * The Times *Her writing is sensuous, radical and uncannily perceptive * The Times *India’s finest writer in English * Independent *She is one of the best English language novelists of modern times * Daily Telegraph *
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 the Royal Society of Literature.
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