Anita Desai

A trio of artful novellas by the award-winning author of The Zigzag Way ruminates on memory, illusion and expectation and is set in India of the recent past, where its protagonists embark on unexpected journeys that offer renewed hope and opportunity.

Three Novellas

The Artist of Disappearance

Her descriptive power is so specific; she manages to use plain language while not just describing the scene but picking the right words that help you understand the specific shades and intensities of feeling. She shows- rather than tells - how the characters are feeling without being so abstract that you miss the point (I felt that esp so in Translated)

Shohini Gupta

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.

The Artist of Disappearance Three Novellas

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