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The Artist of Disappearance

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099553953

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 128g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Artist of Disappearance

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.

Rich and evocative, remarkable in their clarity and sensuous in their telling, these stories remind us of the extraordinary yet delicate power of this pre-eminent writer.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099553953

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 128g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Profoundly elegiac

    Margaret Drabble, New Statesman

  • From a web of connections, Desai spins stories of history and loss that move the reader not with epiphanies, but through the sheer beauty of her storytelling

    Time Out

  • Elegantly paced and smartly crafted

    Fatima Bhutto, Financial Times

  • Anita Desai writes exquisitely

    Allan Massie, Scotsman

  • Bewitchingly beautiful

    The Times

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About the Author

Anita Desai

Anita Desai was born and brought up in India and has written widely for both adults and children. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and has won the Guardian Fiction Award.

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