The Zigzag Way, Desai, Anita

Автор: Anita Desai
Название: The Artist of Disappearance
ISBN: 0099553953 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099553953
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A government official who is inspecting a faded mansion of forgotten treasures, comes across the final, shocking gift which is bleeding the museum dry.

Автор: Desai, Anita
Название: Diamond Dust & Other Stories
ISBN: 0099289644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099289647
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Описание: Puts the spotlight on private universes from India to Canada and New England, from Cornwall to Mexico. This book talks about people who set forth on journeys and find themselves suddenly beyond the pale, or surprisingly back where they started from. Caught up in the cycles of hope and disappointment, their lives are ruled by the seasons.

Автор: Kiran Desai
Название: The Inheritance of Loss
ISBN: 0141028726 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141028729
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The Man Booker Prize Winner 2006

Автор: Desai, Anita
Название: The Complete Stories
ISBN: 1784741892 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784741891
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Описание: `To compare Anita Desai`s fiction with that of Chekhov or the short stories of Tolstoy is not extravagant; 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.

Автор: Desai, Anita
Название: The Village by the Sea (A Puffin Book R/I)
ISBN: 0141359765 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141359762
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Описание: A story of survival set in a small fishing villlage near Bombay. Lila and Hari, aged 13 and 12, struggle to keep the family, including two young sisters, going when their mother is ill and their father usually the worse for drink. When Hari goes to Bombay to find work, Lila seems to be responsible for everything. Although the book paints a picture of extreme poverty, it demonstrates the strength of the family even in the most extreme circumstances and offers a powerful picture of another culture.

Автор: Desai, Anita
Название: Journey To Ithaca
ISBN: 0099428474 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099428473
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Описание: He believes he finds it at the feet of `the Mother`, but down-to-earth Sophie, who accompanies him, does not find her inspiring so much as mysterious, and decides to trace the Mother`s own story - from her travels with an Indian dance troupe in Paris, Venice and New York, to her search for divine love in India.

Автор: Desai, Anita
Название: Zigzag Way
ISBN: 0701177438 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780701177430
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Описание: Eric, a young North American, finds himself on a curious quest for his own family in a `ghost` mining town in Mexico, now barely inhabited, where almost a hundred years earlier young Cornish miners, like his own grandfather, worked the mines. Until Pancho Villa and revolution came to Mexico.

Автор: Desai, Anita
Название: Games At Twilight
ISBN: 0099428539 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099428534
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Описание: Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, this is a collection of 11 short stories that reflect Desai`s skill for evoking the full flavour of Indian life. The colours, smells and sounds, as well as some intensely individual characters, are here.

Автор: Desai, Anita
Название: Baumgartner`s Bombay
ISBN: 0099428520 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099428527
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Описание: Hugo Baumgartner is a lifelong wandering Jew. From his agonising childhood in pre-war Berlin, through his spell in business first in Calcutta and then Bombay, he simply doesn`t belong. Too dark for Hitler`s Germany, too fair for India, he remains a foreigner wherever he goes.

Автор: Desai, Anita
Название: In Custody
ISBN: 0099428490 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099428497
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Описание: Asked to interview India`s greatest poet, Nur, Deven sees a way to escape the miseries of life as a small-town scholar. But the old man he finds deep in the bazaars of Old Delhi bears no resemblance to the idol of his youth. Deven is fooled, bullied and cheated, and drawn into a new captivity.

Автор: Desai, Anita
Название: Clear light of day
ISBN: 0099276186 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099276180
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Описание: To the family living in a shabby, dusty house in Delhi, Tara`s visit brings a sharp reminder of life outside tradition. For Bim coping endlessly with their problems, there is renewal of the old jealousies for, unlike her sister, she has failed to escape.

Автор: Desai, Anita
Название: Fasting, feasting
ISBN: 0099289636 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099289630
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Описание: From the heart of a close-knit Indian household to the cool centre of an American family, this novel examines a surfeit of feasting and Indian family life, and the self-denial and starving of affluent American women in the land of plenty.