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The Complete Stories

The Complete Stories

by Anita Desai (Author)

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    Hardcover 2017

    $3.39
Synopsis

*Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year by The Sunday Times* '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 Anita Desai is amongst our greatest and most insightful writers. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, The Complete Stories gathers together the 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. 'All her stories are full of a confidence in human nature that is a rarity and a pleasure to encounter' Spectator 'Anita Desai is one of the most brilliant and subtle writers ever to have described the meeting of eastern and western culture' Alison Lurie

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 448
 Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 01 Jun 2017
ISBN 10: 1784741892
ISBN 13: 9781784741891
Book Overview: The complete short fiction by one of our most subtle and compassionate writers

Media Reviews
Anita Desai is one of the greats of the modern short story ... The whole collection breathes old-style quality -- Phil Baker * The Sunday Times *
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 *
All her stories are full of a confidence in human nature that is a rarity and a pleasure to encounter * Spectator *
Anita Desai is one of the most brilliant and subtle writers ever to have described the meeting of eastern and western culture -- Alison Lurie
Author Bio
Born and educated in India, Anita Desai is the author of many novels and short stories, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody and Fasting, Feasting. She is the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of Literature.