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Desai, Anita Average customer rating: the book that made me drop Asian Lit Thoughtful novel about the divising of the Indian subcontinent A very truthful, warm and touching domestic drama. Patience Pays Off Compelling Clear Light of Day Anita Desai Manufacturer: Mariner Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: The Inheritance of Loss Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard Fasting, Feasting Baumgartner's Bombay The Guide: A Novel (Penguin Classics) ASIN: Book Description Set in India's Old Delhi, CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY is Anita Desai's tender, warm, and compassionate novel about family scars, the ability to forgive and forget, and the trials and tribulations of familial love. At the novel's heart are the moving relationships between the members of the Das family, who have grown apart from each other. Bimla is a dissatisfied but ambitious teacher at a women's college who lives in her childhood home, where she cares for her mentally challenged brother, Baba. Tara is her younger, unambitious, estranged sister, married and with children of her own. Raja is their popular, brilliant, and successful brother. When Tara returns for a visit with Bimla and Baba, old memories and tensions resurface and blend into a domestic drama that is intensely beautiful and leads to profound self-understanding. Customer Reviews: the book that made me drop Asian Lit Thoughtful novel about the divising of the Indian subcontinent The partition of the Indian subcontinent into two nations has held sway over the Indian imagination for more than three decades. In fiction and in films, the troubles figure as watershed and as metaphor, having as much force for Indians today as the Civil War had for Americans at the turn of the last century, although with the important difference that the War Between the States left this country united rather than divided.

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Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Anita Desai (b. 1937) - formerly Anita Mazumdar Indian novelist and short story writer, especially noted for her sensitive portrayal of the inner life of her female characters. Several of Desai's novels explore tensions between family members and the alienation of middle-class women. In her later novels Desai has dealt with such themes as German anti-Semitism, the demise of traditions, and Western stereotypical views of India. "Even though his cigarette stank - it was a local one, wrapped in a tendu leaf, fierce enough to make his head swim - he could smell the distinctive Indian odour - of dung, both of cattle and men, of smoke from the village hearts, of cattle food and cattle urine, of dust, of pungent food cooking, of old ragged clothes washed without soap and put out to dry, the aroma of poverty." (from Baumgartner's Bombay Anita Desai was born in Mussoorie, a hill station north of Delhi, the daughter of a D.N. Mazumdar, a Bengali businessman, and the former Toni Nime, of German origin. She began to write in English at the age of seven, and published her first story at the age of nine. Desai was educated in Delhi at Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School and Miranda House, Delhi University, where she received in 1957 a B.A. in English literature. In the following year she married Ashvin Desai, a businessman; they had four children.

4. Anita Desai : Voices From The Gaps : University Of Minnesota Biography, bibliography and related links on this writer born to a German mother and an Indian father, who writes in English. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/desaiAnita.php

Campuses : Twin Cities Crookston Duluth Morris ... Other Locations Voices From the Gaps voices@umn.edu myU OneStop About VG Artist Pages ... Artist Pages : Anita Desai Anita Desai b. 1937 Biography and Criticism Selected Bibliography Non-English Materials Related Links ... Contributors Keywords Short Stories Novelists Children's Literature Novels ... Indians With her inner eye she saw how her own house and its particular history linked and contained her, as well as her whole family . . . giving them the soil in which to send down their roots. . . . always drawing from the same soil, the same secret darkness. That soil contained all time, past and future. . . . It was where her deepest self lived, and the deepest selves of her sisters and brothers and all those who shared that time with her. — Clear Light of Day Biography / Criticism Born to a German mother and an Indian father on June 24, 1937, Anita Desai spent much of her life in New Delhi. Growing up she spoke German at home and Hindi to friends and neighbors. She first learned English when she went to school. It was the language in which she first learned to read and write, and so it became her literary language. When asked why English remains her literary language, she said, "I think it had a tremendous effect that the first thing you saw written and the first thing you ever read was English. It seemed to me the language of books. I just went on writing it because I always wanted to belong to this world of books" (CLC). Desai received a BA in English Literature and graduated with honors from the University of Delhi. She started publishing her work shortly after her marriage to Ashrin Desai on December 13, 1958.

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Anita Desai From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Anita Desai Born Anita Mazumdar June 24, 1937 Mussoorie India Occupation Author Nationality Indian ,German Period 1970s—present Genres Fiction Anita Mazumdar Desai (born June 24, 1937) 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, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award , in 1978 for her novel, "Fire on the Mountain" , by the Sahitya Akademi , India's National Academy of Letters Contents Background Career Film Awards ... edit Background Born as Anita Mazumdar to a German mother, Toni Nime, and a Bengali businessman, D. N. Mazumdar in Mussoorie India . She grew up speaking German at home and Bengali Urdu Hindi and English outside the house. She first learned to read and write in English at school and as a result it became her "literary language" . Despite German being her first language she did not visit Germany until later in life as an adult. She was a student at Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School in Delhi and received her B.A. in English literature in 1957 from the

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Reader: Desai, Anita Accession Number - 847 Date: Length: Tape Quality: good Collection: Poetry Center Ethnicity: Asian/Pacific Islander Language: English Use Policy: available Content: Lecture: "Indian Literature and the English Language: Readings from Contemporary Writers." Gluck, Robert (Intro.) Comments or Questions Search Catalog

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Home Browse by author A B C D ... Z Other books Fire on the Mountain Book (Random House) Games at Twilight and Other Stories (King Penguin) Book (Penguin (Non-Classics)) List Price: Voices in the City Book (South Asia Books) List Price: Price: Fasting, Feasting Book (Mariner Books) List Price: Price: You Save: Diamond Dust: Stories Book (Mariner Books) List Price: Price: You Save: Clear Light of Day Book (Mariner Books) List Price: Price: You Save: Desai Anita Clear Light of Day List Price: Price: You Save: Product Details Notes: Maker NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Associate our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Make ready: New Description Set in India's Old Delhi, CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY is Anita Desai's tender, warm, and compassionate novel about family scars, the ability to forgive and forget, and the trials and tribulations of familial love. At the novel's heart are the moving relationships between the members of the Das family, who have grown apart from each other. Bimla is a dissatisfied but ambitious teacher at a women's college who lives in her childhood home, where she cares for her mentally challenged brother, Baba. Tara is her younger, unambitious, estranged sister, married and with children of her own. Raja is their popular, brilliant, and successful brother. When Tara returns for a visit with Bimla and Baba, old memories and tensions resurface and blend into a domestic drama that is intensely beautiful and leads to profound self-understanding.

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12. Desai, Anita Definition Of Desai, Anita In The Free Online Encyclopedia. Desai, Anita orig. Anita Mazumdar (born June 24, 1937, Mussoorie, India) Indian novelist and author of children's books. Considered India's premier imagist writer, she excels in http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Desai, Anita

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Anita Desai (1937- ) Links to Other Web Sites: Indian Writing in English (information on authors like Anita Desai, R. K. Narayan, etc.) SASIALIT LIST (discussion of contemporary literature of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka; authors discussed include: Anita Desai, Farrukh Dhondy, Amitav Ghosh, Romesh Gunesekera, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Hanif Kureishi, Gita Mehta, Rohinton Mistry, Bharati Mukherjee, V.S. Naipaul, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, and Bapsi Sidhwa) Recommended Background Texts: Desai, Anita, Clear Light of Day Jain, Jasbir, Stairs to the Attic: The Novels of Anita Desai (1987) (on order) Jussawalla, Feroza, Family Quarrels: Towards a Criticism of Indian Writing in English (1985) (on order) Mukherjee, Meenakshi, The Twice-Born Fiction (1971) (on order) Srivastava, Ramesh K., Perspectives on Anita Desai (1984) (on order) Walsh, William, Indian Literature in English (1990) (on order) Audiovisual Resources: Desai, Anita, Anita Desai , fiction reading and interview with Marilyn Samuels, December 14, 1989, 1 videocassette, 30 min (World Literature Library, CA 303)

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20. Desai, Anita - Indian, Explores, Baumgartner, Story, Family, And German (Indian, 1937– ) Desai was born in Mussorie, of German and Indian parentage, and has been shortlisted several times for the Booker Prize, most recently in 1999, with Fasting http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/18680/Desai-Anita.html

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