Anita Desai

The Complete Stories

  • The Complete Stories

  • 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 India, Anita Desai observes human behaviour unflinchingly but not unkindly, recognising our ordinariness and our strangeness, and capturing both with quiet precision.

Baumgartner's Bombay
Baumgartner's Bombay
Anita Desai
Fasting, Feasting
Fasting, Feasting
Anita Desai
Clear Light of Day
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
The Village by the Sea
The Village by the Sea
Anita Desai
The Artist of Disappearance
The Artist of Disappearance
Anita Desai
The Zigzag Way
The Zigzag Way
Anita Desai
The Home and the World
The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore
Games At Twilight
Games At Twilight
Anita Desai
In Custody
In Custody
Anita Desai
Fire On The Mountain
Fire On The Mountain
Anita Desai
Journey to Ithaca
Journey to Ithaca
Anita Desai
Diamond Dust & Other Stories
Diamond Dust & Other Stories
Anita Desai

A Puffin Book

101 Books

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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