Anita Desai’s accomplished family drama explores how the unexplored crises of childhood can reveal new worlds - if courage can be found to face them.
Anita Desai
Anita Desai was born in Mussoorie, India. The author of many novels and short stories, she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.
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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A frustrated small-town scholar lands the opportunity of a lifetime, but only encounters more frustration in Anita Desai’s touching comic novel.
Anita Desai’s intricate family drama examines the different ways in which two cultures assuage human hungers, desires and appetites.