Anita Desai

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Anita Desai


Born
in Mussoorie, India
June 24, 1937

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Anita Desai was born in 1937. Her published works include adult novels, children's books and short stories. She is a member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delhi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. Anita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times. Her daughter, the author Kiran Desai, is the winner of the 2006 Booker prize. ...more

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Fasting, Feasting

3.35 avg rating — 5,262 ratings — published 1999 — 36 editions
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Clear Light of Day

3.72 avg rating — 4,051 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions
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The Village by the Sea

3.65 avg rating — 4,033 ratings — published 1982 — 46 editions
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Rosarita

3.15 avg rating — 3,104 ratings — published 2024 — 16 editions
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In Custody

3.37 avg rating — 2,096 ratings — published 1984 — 12 editions
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The Artist of Disappearance

3.39 avg rating — 1,696 ratings — published 2011 — 31 editions
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Fire on the Mountain

3.60 avg rating — 1,296 ratings — published 1977 — 34 editions
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Baumgartner's Bombay

3.52 avg rating — 990 ratings — published 1989 — 39 editions
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The Zigzag Way: A Novel by ...

2.96 avg rating — 538 ratings — published 2004 — 19 editions
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Games at Twilight and Other...

3.45 avg rating — 450 ratings — published 1978 — 23 editions
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“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
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“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
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“...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.”
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