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1. Diamond Dust: Stories by Anita Desai | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2000-05-19)
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Jewels on a platter - dazzling and colourful stories Bypassing the obvious to capture the evasive is a quality particular to the short story, whose genre is ideally suited to treat the ephemeral. Its constraints allow to expand only sufficiently what the leniency of the novel would lose in all its space. A genre more purely aesthetic and much less moral-bound than its counterparts in prose, it's all about conveying impressions and creating impact. Its constraints rule out indulgence and superfluousness, making it the ideal genre to tackle the subtle. It is exactly this attribute that Anita Desai capitalizes on. She captures moments and emotions high in delicacy and measures an exact number of words to draw them up - one word less and the sketch is left wanting, one word more and it's already redundant. Her expression is the language of fragility itself and she tackles the most discreet of subjects with effortless poise. Her stories move between a whole range of moods; from exuberant to mellow, from exultant to creastfallen, from delight to ennui, from expectant to disappointed. Her word, like the stroke of the seasoned artist, is sure of itself, it never wavers or falters and fits in its place like a jewel. In some stories, characters try to grapple with figments of their past which surface unexpectedly, This is the case in `Royalty', `Underground', `T Tomorrow' and `Winterscape'. Characters from the past reappear after long absences and are incompatible with the present. Efforts to accommodate them are slowly swallowed by the demands of routine and changed priorities. This causes disappointments, regrets and sadness. Sometimes, this visit by an `appariton of the past' can momentarily relieve the monotony of life. And it is this moment in time that the story freezes - this strange relief before life resumes its regular drone. On the lines of James Joyce's `Araby', only a lot more fathomable is `The Artist's Life' - about youth's disillusion...that fraction of a second in which by the slightest jolt an idol falls and an icon breaks. The intensity of this moment in youth, so ridiculously melodramatic and absurd in retrospect - that is the story. `Five hours to Simla' sketches a colourful, entertaining and exasperating interlude in a family's drive to Simla. Animated by spashes of local colour - Indian sights, Indian sounds and some very Indian loonies. In a clear Kafkaesque vein, with all its brooding moodis the freaky `The Man Who Saw Himself Drown'. As intriguing as it is irresistible, the story mingles absurdity with sorrow. Very floutingly Sarterian. Less brooding but as tragic, `Diamond Dust' probes the limits of human devotion. The last and my favourite, `Rooftop Dwellers' is about a young girl embracing the odds of independent life in pursuit of her goals. Her new lodging is her dream house but is not without its inconveniences. This newfound freedom is an exhilarating feeling, one she chooses over everything else. Much short of grandiloquence but not the least embarrassed of it, these stories appeal to you with all the miniature beauty of trinkets. Surrender to them and let them seduce u with their dainty appeal.
Amazingdiversityofthemes
Pretentious or pedestrian, I cant't really decide Sorry to be so jaundiced but I really don't see what all the fuss is about...
Good Read
Insight and humor |
2. Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai | |
Paperback: 228
Pages
(2000-01-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description Uma flounces off, her grey hair frazzled, her myopic eyes glaring behindher spectacles, muttering under her breath. The parents, momentarilyagitated upon their swing by the sudden invasion of ideas--sweets, parcel,letter, sweets--settle back to their slow, rhythmic swinging. They look outupon the shimmering heat of the afternoon as if the tray with tea, withsweets, with fritters, will materialise and come swimming out of it--totheir rescue. With increasing impatience, they swing and swing.Arun, in college in Massachusetts, is none too happily spending the summerwith the Pattons in the suburbs: their refrigerator and freezer is packedwith meat that no one eats, and Mrs. Patton is desperate to be avegetarian, like Arun. But what he most wants is to be ignored, invisible."Her words make Arun wince. Will she never learn to leave well alone? Shedoes not seem to have his mother's well-developed instincts for survivalthrough evasion. After a bit of pushing about slices of tomatoes and leavesof lettuce--in his time in America he has developed a hearty abhorrencefor the raw foods everyone here thinks the natural diet of a vegetarian--hedares to glance at Mr. Patton." Desai's counterpointing of India and America is a little forced, but herfocus on the daily round, whether in the Ganges or in New England, finelydelineates the unspoken dramas in both cultures. And her characters,capable of their own small rebellions, give Fasting, Feasting itssharp bite. --Ruth Petrie Customer Reviews (33)
A Cross Cultural View of Happiness?
Lovely, heart-rending read about loneliness and family
Anita Desai
Only half a book
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai |
3. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(2000-09-12)
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Essential Indian reading
Day Old Lottery Tickets Are More Interesting
Superfluous and slow; leading nowhere..
the book that made me drop Asian Lit
Thoughtful novel about the divising of the Indian subcontinent |
4. Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(2000-05-19)
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An okay read
Baumgartner's Bombay for everyone
Wanderer
Anita Desai at her best
A passive character caught up in terrible events. |
5. The Village By the Sea by Anita Desai | |
Paperback:
Pages
(2002)
Isbn: 0143335499 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (12)
A very moving story
Great Book from Anita
The Power of Human Spirit
Touching Story Of Indian Family
Village by the Sea |
6. Cry, the Peacock by Anita Desai | |
Paperback: 184
Pages
(2005-06-01)
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Losing your mind!
Feminine fancy and reality |
7. Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1977)
Asin: B001SEXKFE Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (4)
Strikingly original
life for ME this was an excellent book, which doesnt mean u will necesseraly like it. if ur looking for some meaning, maybe this book could help u find some. it surely helped me.
short and boring
Fire on the Mountain |
8. Bye Bye Blackbird by Anita Desai | |
Paperback: 232
Pages
(2005-02-28)
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9. Games at Twilight and Other Stories (King Penguin) by Anita Desai | |
Paperback: 144
Pages
(1990-09-01)
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Sense of belonging and displacement
Just Lovely! Indian writers are hot right now, but no one comes close to Desai's fine blend of realism and romance.A child of a German and an Indian, Desai probably isable to synthesize a cultural viewpoint all her own. Her unique (oftensatirical, always witty) eye sees much, and her writing is a bafflinglybrilliant mix of poetry and economy. Not a bad story in the batch...you'll want to read them again and again! ... Read more |
10. In Custody by Anita Desai | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(1994-08-01)
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Is there a way to save a dying culture?
Great BUT only if...
A beautiful novel
A very interesting look at new versus old
Delightful, light-handed academic satire. |
11. Novels of Anita Desai by Sandhyarani Dash | |
Hardcover: 250
Pages
(1997-04-01)
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12. Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel: Genre and Ideology in R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie by Fawzia Afzal-Khan | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(1993-11-01)
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13. Anita Desai (Writers and their Work) by Elaine Yee Lin Ho | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(2005-12-15)
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14. Anita Desai's Fiction: Patterns of Survival Strategies by Mrinalini Solanki | |
Hardcover: 227
Pages
(1993-03)
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15. Anita Desai (Indian writers series) by R. S Sharma | |
Hardcover: 175
Pages
(1981)
Asin: B0006E7OJA Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
16. Human Bonds and Bondages: The Fiction of Anita Desai and Kamala Markandaya by Usha Pathania | |
Hardcover: 216
Pages
(1993-03)
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17. Virginia Woolf and Anita Desai; A Comparative Study by Asha Kanwar | |
Hardcover: 200
Pages
(1997-06-01)
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18. Women in the novels of Anita Desai: The archetypes and patterns of quest by Virender Parmar | |
Unknown Binding: 192
Pages
(2000)
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19. Six Indian novelists: Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Balachandran Rajan, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai (Creative new literatures series) by A. V Suresh Kumar | |
Hardcover: 132
Pages
(1996)
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20. Women and society in the novels of Anita Desai (Creative new literatures series) by Bidulata Choudhury | |
Unknown Binding: 116
Pages
(1995)
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