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Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
To the family living in a shabby, dusty house in Delhi, Tara's visit brings a sharp reminder of life outside tradition. For Bim coping endlessly with their problems, there is renewal of the old jealousies for, unlike her sister, she has failed to escape.
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the heart of a close-knit Indian household to the cool centre of an American family, this novel examines a surfeit of feasting and Indian family life, and the self-denial and starving of affluent American women in the land of plenty.
Fire On The Mountain by Anita Desai
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Nanda Kaul is old. She has chosen to spend her last years high up in the mountains where she can arrange her thoughts into tranquility. But her solitude is broken when her fragile and secretive great-grand-daughter, Raka, comes to stay. It is an intrusion Nanda Kaul deeply resents, but this child has a ...Show more
Journey to Ithaca by Anita Desai
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Like so many other young Westerners in the 1960s and 1970s, Matteo leaves home to search for spiritual enlightenment in the ashrams of India. He believes he finds it at the feet of 'the Mother', but down-to-earth Sophie, who accompanies him, does not find her inspiring so much as mysterious, and decides ...Show more
The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
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. Ri ...Show more
The Artist of Disappearance (HB) by Anita Desai
$39.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas makes 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. I ...Show more
The Village by the Sea by Anita Desai
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
This is a story of survival set in a small fishing villlage near Bombay. 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. When Hari goes to Bombay to find work, Lila seems to be responsib ...Show more
The Zigzag Way by Anita Desai
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 st ...Show more
Village by the Sea by Anita Desai
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
With their mother ill and their father permanently drunk, Hara and Lila have to earn the money to keep house and look after their two young sisters. In desperation, Hari runs away to Bombay, leaving Lila to cope alone.
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