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Games At Twilight

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099428534

  • Length: 144  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 106g

  • RRP: £8.99

Games At Twilight

Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched with sadness, Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters - the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon; the American wife who, homesick for the verdant farmlands of Vermont, turns to the hippies in the Indian hills; the painter living in a slum who fills his canvasses with flowers, birds and landscapes he has never seen.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099428534

  • Length: 144  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 106g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • "As finely written atmospheric pieces alone the stories would be memorable... As social documents they are absorbing. The volume's profound theme is the tension between convention and exploration, family solidarity and individualism... An admirable humane and responsible achievement"

    Hermione Lee, Observer

  • "One of the most brilliant and subtle writers ever to have described the meeting of eastern and western culture"

    Alison Lurie

  • "Beautifully accomplished and memorable"

    The Times

  • "Absolutely first-rate…absorbing"

    Hermione Lee, Observer

  • "Desai has a gift of opening up a closed world and making it clearly visible"

    Sunday Times

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About the Author

Anita Desai

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.

Anita Desai

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