| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0-099-27618-6 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-8184000153 |
| No of pages | 183 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | William Heinemann Ltd |
| Published Date | 01 Jan 1980 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0-099-27618-6 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-8184000153 |
| No of pages | 183 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | William Heinemann Ltd |
| Published Date | 01 Jan 1980 |
Anita Desai is one of India's foremost writers. She has written numerous works of fiction, including Clear Light of Day (1980),
In Custody (1984), and Fasting, Feasting (1999)-all shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize-as well as Baumgartner's Bombay (1988) and The Zigzag Way (2004).
In Custody was made into a film by Merchant-Ivory productions, starring Shashi Kapoor and Om Pura. Her most recent work is The Artist of Disappearance (2011).
A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London, the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York,
Gorton College and Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge, and most recently Sahitya Akademie in India,
Anita Desai has also been a Professor of Writing at MIT and has frequently been honored with awards, among them the Alberto Moravia Prize for Literature and the Padma Shri.
Born in Mussoorie to a German mother and a Bengali father, she was educated in Delhi, and currently divides her time between USA and Mexico.
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While their parents went to parties at Delhi's Rosamaria Club, the children of the Das family brought themselves up, reading Byron, listening to the gramophone and watching over sad, alcoholic Mira masa.
Many years later, the youngest, Tara now a mother of two has returned from America to the scene of her unusual, lonesome childhood. Here, as always, is her sister Bam, doggedly single college-lecturer and caretaker of all. In her presence, Tara sinks into the blissful torpor of home, at once her dreamy old self but careful as ever around her older sister.
For at the heart of this reunion are numerous tensions: Tara feels the persistent guilt of having, like the others,
abandoned Bam, their autistic brother Baba is increasingly unquiet and Bam has not spoken to their other brother, Raja, for years and refuses to go to his daughter's wedding. Clear Light of Day is vintage Anita Desai, a novel as wonderfully contemplative as a cup of afternoon tea.