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Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Hugo Baumgartner is a man who doesn't belong anywhere. He's a Berlin Jew who travelled to India to escape the Nazis and, after years spent the mercy of his past and his tumultuous adopted land, he has now retired to a seedy cat-filled apartment behind Bombay's Taj Hotel. But destiny has not finished wit ...Show more
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: A "rich, Chekhovian novel" about family and forgiveness from the acclaimed author of Fire on the Mountain (The New Yorker). At the heart of this "wonderful" novel are the moving relationships between the estranged members of the Das family (The Washington Post Book ...Show more
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1999 BOOKER PRIZE Uma, the plain, spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions, unlike her ambitious younger sister Aruna, who brings off a 'good' marriage, and brother Arun, the disappointing son and ...Show more
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
$23.95 AUD
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.
The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai
$19.95 AUD
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
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Complete Stories by Anita Desai
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author. From the icy suburbs of Canada to the overcrowded B&Bs of Cornwall, via the hill towns and cities of Ind ...Show more
The Complete Stories: Anita Desai by Anita Desai
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"To compare Anita Desai's fiction with that of Chekhov or the short stories of Tolstoy is not extravagant; it is entirely warranted". (Irish Times). Anita Desai is amongst our greatest and most insightful writers. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, The Complete Stories gathers together the short stor ...Show more
The Village by the Sea by Anita Desai
$16.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | 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
$23.95 AUD
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
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