| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 8184002815 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-81-8400-155-6 |
| No of pages | 156 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Random House India |
| Published Date | 01 Jan 2012 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 8184002815 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-81-8400-155-6 |
| No of pages | 156 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Random House India |
| Published Date | 01 Jan 2012 |
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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In this trio of exquisitely crafted novellas, experience the soaring brilliance and delicate restraint of one of India's great writers. In the opening novella, 'The Museum of Final Journeys', a junior Civil Service officer is assigned to a remote outpost. Bored with his new surroundings, he welcomes the diversion when he is called upon by an old retainer to help preserve the decaying treasures of one family's private museum. Tantalizing and nostalgic, this is an allegory of time and dissolution and of how the past erodes beauty and the present.
In the second novella, 'Translator Translated', a prematurely aged lecturer at a girls' college chances upon the opportunity of a lifetime when a self-absorbed publisher commissions her to translate to English a collection of short stories of an obscure Oriya author. The assignment transforms her humdrum life, but when the author's family complains about a translation with which she has taken artistic license her life unravels.
Finally, in the title novella, set in Mussoorie, the reclusive son of wealthy, neglectful parents has a solipsistic existence in the remains of a burnt house high on a mountain. The arrival of a venal film crew from Delhi, making a film about environmental degradation, compels him to withdraw even further into seclusion. Intense, haunting and evocative, The Artist of Disappearance is a delightful rumination on solitude and human frailties.