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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 07/06/2018
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ISBN: 9781784706647
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Length: 448 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm
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Weight: 355g
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RRP: £9.99
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.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 07/06/2018
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ISBN: 9781784706647
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Length: 448 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm
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Weight: 355g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"Anita Desai is one of the greats of the modern short story ... The whole collection breathes old-style quality"
Phil Baker, The Sunday Times
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"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
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"All her stories are full of a confidence in human nature that is a rarity and a pleasure to encounter"
Spectator
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"Anita Desai is one of the most brilliant and subtle writers ever to have described the meeting of eastern and western culture"
Alison Lurie
