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Desai Anita:     more books (100)

Daughters of the Vicar (Hesperus Classics) by D. H. Lawrence, 2004-04-01 Im hellen Licht des Tages : Roman by Anita Desai, 1996 Village by the Sea: Indian Family Story (Plus) by Anita Desai, 1995-11 La claire lumière du jour by Anita Desai, 1993-09-07 Voices in the City by Anita Desai, 2001-01-01 Le Jeûne et le Festin by Anita Desai, Anne-Cécile Padoux, 2002-10-30 Games at Twilight: And Other Stories (King Penguin) by Anita Desai, 1983-05-26 Essays on India (Hesperus Modern Voices) by Carlo Levi, 2008-02-01 Critical Essays on Anita Desa's Fiction Calcutta: A Cultural History by Krishna Dutta, 2008-06 Words are Stones: Impressions of Sicily (Hesperus Modern Voices) by Carlo Levi, 2005-05-01 Human Relationship in Anita Desai's Novels Arctic Summer (Hesperus Classics) by E.M. Forster, 2003-09-01 Scholarship and integrity: Matthew Arnold's "The Scholar-Gipsy" and Anita Desai's "Scholar and Gypsy".(Critical essay): An article from: Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics by Peter Cook, 2009-01-01

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61. Anita Desai Short-listed For Booker Prize : National News : IndiaExpress.Com
    anita desai shortlisted for Booker Prize 22nd Sept 1999 anita desai from Indiais among the six authors worldwide to be short-listed for the annual £21,000  
    http://www.indiaexpress.com/news/national/19990922-2.html

62. Anita Desai, Frühjahrsbuchwoche 2002
    Translate this page Die Erkundung verborgener Wahrheit Zu anita desai Von Utta Roy-Seifert Von Kindheitan, sagt anita desai, sei ihr das Schreiben so natürlich wie das Atmen  
    http://www.fruehjahrsbuchwoche.de/2002/autoren02/02autor08.html

63. Reading Group Guide | FASTING, FEASTING By Anita Desai
    Fasting, Feasting by anita desai List Price $13.00 Pages 240 FormatPaperback ISBN 0618065822 Publisher Houghton Mifflin. anita  
    http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/fasting_feasting.asp
    
    Extractions: What kinds of freedom and what specific freedoms do the characters seek? In what ways is the "total freedom of anonymity" that Arun experiences in his university dormitory similar to the freedom that Uma seeks? What is the significance of Uma's experiences at, on, and in the sacred river? What does Desai mean when she writes of Uma's near-drowning (in chapter nine), "The saving was what made her shudder and cry ..."? What mysteries and "golden promises" does Uma seek within the convent school, with Mira-masi, and in her Christmas-card collection? In what ways does spirituality enter the novel? What characters have authentic spiritual leanings or capacities? Are Uma's seizures, for example, instances of spiritual possession or eruptions of suppressed frustration and rage?

64. Salon Reviews | "Fasting, Feasting" By Anita Desai
    Fasting, Feasting by anita desai. Unhappy Indian families are unhappy in theirown way, too, the author demonstrates in this Booker Prize finalist.  
    http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/02/17/desai/print.html
    
    Extractions: By Sylvia Brownrigg A nita Desai is a wonderfully subtle writer who achieves her powerful and poignant effects by stealth rather than by direct action. Her latest novel, "Fasting, Feasting," a finalist for last year's Booker Prize, tells the apparently spare story of one Indian family and the varying fates of its two daughters and single son; it is only on the novel's final, quiet page that Desai's intricate structure becomes clear and the complexity of her emotional insight makes itself felt. She opens her story with a busy domestic scene, as the parents who have such a fused authority that they are often referred to simply as MamaPapa fussily ask whether daughter Uma has given orders to the cook and prepared a package for son Arun, who is studying in America. In the novel's present tense, Uma is a gray-haired spinster living under MamaPapa's demanding rule. In flashbacks scattered through the novel's first part, we gradually see how Uma arrived at this imprisoned state. Uma is an eager, thwarted character of genuine pathos: Clumsy, nearsighted, slow, she is treated with neglectful impatience by her parents and with some condescension by her smart and pretty younger sister, Aruna. Her greatest happinesses occur in moments of near oblivion, as when she succumbs to a fit in an ashram to which her pious Aunt Mira-Masi has taken her (the fit is interpreted as possession by the Lord), or when she nearly drowns in the Ganges during a religious ritual but is saved, much to her dismay, by scolding relatives.

65. Voyage Into Consciousness: The Fiction Of Anita Desai & Virginia Woolf (Select B
    Virginia Woolf and anita desai are both writers interested in tracing the innerlives of their protagonists in order to show the changing facets of their  
    http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/titles/30633.htm
    
    Extractions: Virginia Woolf and Anita Desai are both writers interested in tracing the inner lives of their protagonists in order to show the changing facets of their consciousness. In this critical work the author compares and contrasts Woolf's To the Lighthouse with Desai's Where Shall We Go This Summer? in a lucid and insightful way. * Actual charges are made in Singapore Dollars (S$). S$1.00 = US$0.57

66. Anita Desai
    Scholars' Forum, Jewish Studies Program, organized by prof William Miles, with theparticipation of Roberto Cabrera, anita desai, Locksley Edmondson, Gerard  
    http://www.violence.neu.edu/Anita.Desai.html
    
    Extractions: Following her reading from Baumgartner’s Bombay Professor Desai entertained questions from the audience. Marvin Brahams : How did you happen to come to pick this theme for your book? Jean Cooper-Schmitt : It’s quite a while since I’ve read Baumgartner’s Bombay , but I seem to recall him as a defeated character.  As you say, he is passive.  As I recall, throughout the book he never seems to make decisions.  Events happen to him.  That’s why he’s in Bombay. Professor Samuel Bernstein : I had a long-running book club in Massachusetts.  We tried to select those books that we feel are most interesting, most influential, richest “literarily.”  I just want you to know that among the books we chose was Baumgartner’s Bombay .  I thank you very much. Professor Stephen Nathanson :  I’d like to relate your scene in which Baumgartner is in the internment camp, because he’s German, to the comment made earlier about the roles of Jews in South Africa.  One of the problems or issues that’s been involved in a lot of [our discussions here] has been the ways in which people are related to the groups that they belong to, or are thought to belong to, and the crudity of a lot of these judgments.  I applaud Professor Edmondson for making the point earlier that it would be wrong to think that because Israel – or Israel’s government, or parts of Israel’s government – had supported apartheid, Jews supported apartheid.  It is certainly not true.  Yet, inevitably, it seems that we have to treat each other as parts of groups. 

67. List Of Books
    8 books found. Baumgartner's Bombay by anita desai Penguin USA , paper , 229 pages. ClearLight of Day by anita desai Houghton Mifflin , paper , 182 pages.  
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68. Anita Desai
    peopleBiography anita desai writer Born 6/24/37 Birthplace India. Born toparents of Indian and German heritage, desai grew up in New Delhi, India.  
    http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0880709.html
    
    Extractions: Born to parents of Indian and German heritage, Desai grew up in New Delhi, India. She spoke German at home, and Urdu and Hindi to friends and neighbors. In school, she read and wrote in English. She received her B.A. in English literature from the University of Delhi. She has written more than a dozen adult and children's books, notably Fire on the Mountain (1977), for which she received the National Academy of Letters award in India, Clear Light of Day (1980), and The Village by the Sea (1983), which received the Guardian Prize for Children's fiction. Her novels In Custody (1984) and Baumgartner's Bombay (1988) exemplify her liberal ideas and interest in the outsider. She lives in Massachusetts with her family and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

69. IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection
    To the lobby of the Internet Public Library. Online Literary CriticismCollection. anita desai (1937 ). Criticism about anita desai.  
    http://www.ipl.org.ar/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?au=des-319

70. "Fasting, Feasting" By Anita Desai - A Book Review
    Fasting, Feasting anita desai, 09 October 1999. Plus ca change, plusc'est la meme chose! In anita desai's world, there is only one winner.  
    http://www.manfrommatunga.com/fasting.htm
    
    Extractions: Previous Home Next Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai 09 October 1999 Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose! The more things change the more they remain the same. It doesn't matter where you live, how much you earn, what you do. The vacuousness and lack of purpose that can pervade our lives, will do so, irrespective. Neither in excess, nor in deprivation or denial, is there happiness or peace of mind. The first half of the book deals with life in a small, slow town in India, with rigid parents and well-drafted routines while the other half deals with "rule-less' life in suburban US. The more detailed, "Indian half" deals with an orthodox family in a small provincial town. A partly successful, proud father, who goes through life, with set patterns and no passion. A mother who goes along with her husband, doing what is supposedly right and expected of her, curbing and killing all her innate desires. Three children. The eldest, Uma, clumsy and "Forrest Gumpish". The middle daughter Aruna, pretty, ambitious and smart, but eventually also a victim of her choices. The last, a son, Arun, on whom the parents put all their dreams and energies. All of them along with members of their extended family go through some form of deprivation - of will, of fun, of passion and of love.

71. Anita Desai
    peopleAlmanac—People anita desai writer Born 6/24/37 Birthplace India. Bornto parents of Indian and German heritage, desai grew up in New Delhi, India.  
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    Extractions: Born to parents of Indian and German heritage, Desai grew up in New Delhi, India. She spoke German at home, and Urdu and Hindi to friends and neighbors. In school, she read and wrote in English. She received her B.A. in English literature from the University of Delhi. She has written more than a dozen adult and children's books, notably Fire on the Mountain (1977), for which she received the National Academy of Letters award in India, Clear Light of Day (1980), and The Village by the Sea (1983), which received the Guardian Prize for Children's fiction. Her novels In Custody (1984) and Baumgartner's Bombay (1988) exemplify her liberal ideas and interest in the outsider. She lives in Massachusetts with her family and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. AD AD AD AD AD

72. Poussières De Diamant, Anita Desai
    Translate this page Poussière de diamant anita desai. photo Jacques Sassier/Gallimard. anita desaiest née en 1937 à Bombay d'une mère allemande et d'un père bengali.  
    http://www.mercuredefrance.fr/titres/Poussiresdediamants.htm
    
    Extractions: est née en 1937 à Bombay d'une mère allemande et d'un père bengali. Auteur de neuf romans et de deux recueils de nouvelles couronnés par de nombreux prix littéraires, elle est aujourd'hui la plus célèbre romancière de l'Inde. Elle partage son temps entre New Delhi, les Etats-Unis où elle enseigne et l'Angleterre.

73. Desai
    Translate this page torna all'indice. anita desai. Vive tra l'India e gli Stati Uniti, dove insegna.anita desai è fra le massime voci della narrativa indiana contemporanea.  
    http://www.comune.venezia.it/c-donna/Dedicato/voci_di_donne/desai.htm
    
    Extractions: Ad una intervista la Desai così afferma: "Per me essere una scrittrice in India ha significato condurre una vita segreta, quasi una doppia vita. La società intorno mi ha reso la vita "non semplice". Erano tutti un po' disturbati dal fatto che ci fosse una donna che esprimeva un'opinione e che dipingeva un quadro che nessuno voleva fosse dipinto così." Protagonista il tedesco Baumgartner. Ebreo berlinese che, catapultato nell'India degli anni Quaranta, paese travolto dall'odio razziale e dalla guerra. Rimasto fino ad una vecchiaia di miseria e degradazione, si sente emarginato, deve prendere atto di essere sempre stato un "firanghi", uno straniero. Per Desai il protagonista ha incarnato "il terrore di affrontare a mani nude il feroce assalto dell'esistenza".

74. Anita Desai - Fiction: Autism Books
    Autism Books Fiction anita desai. anita desai. Clear Light of Day.Story of two sisters. One character, their brother, is autistic.  
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75. Entrevista A Anita Desai
    temor a perderla. . ENTREVISTA A anita desai. MAGDA COSTA. Cuando  
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76. Antenati: Anita Desai
    Translate this page anita desai. anita desai. Autrice di numerosi romanzi, tra cui In custodia, e Il villaggio vicino al mare . In Notte e nebbia a Bombay  
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77. Litteratursiden.dk - Langt Borte, Tæt På Af Anita Desai
    Langt borte, tæt på af anita desai. anbefalet af Karin Hviid, Horsens BibliotekLån bogen på Bibliotek.dk Familien er hovedomdrejningspunktet  
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    Extractions: Broderen Arun bliver holdt til bogen og kommer som ung til USA. I den sidste tredjedel af bogen tages springet til beskrivelsen af Aruns ophold en sommer i en amerikansk familie. I denne familie lever hvert familiemedlem deres eget liv. Kontrasten mellem den indiske og amerikanske familie er stor, men egentlig er resultatet det samme. Børnene lades i begge kulturer i stikken af deres forældre. - Trods det triste tema er bogen fuld af stille humor og en fornøjelse at læse.

78. 'Fasting, Feasting' By Anita Desai
    Fasting, Feasting' by anita desai. desai's 'Fasting, Feasting 'is all feast,no famine. Sunday, February 27, 2000. By anita desai. Houghton Mifflin $13.00.  
    http://www.post-gazette.com/books/reviews/20000227review443.asp
    
    Extractions: March 24, 2003 News Sports Lifestyle Classifieds ... About Us Take me to... Search Local News Nation/World Sports Obituaries Lifestyle Business Opinion Photo Journal Weather Classifieds PG Store PG Delivery Web Extras Contact Us About Us Help Corrections Site Map Books Reviews Bob Hoover For Children ... Books This two-part novel set in India and America is a delicate, moving tale of love and family. It tells the worlds-apart stories of a brother and sister separated by what their parents ordain and the world imposes. Originally published in Britain, the novel is published by Houghton Mifflin in an original American paperback in order to increase Desai’s U.S. readership. Part One is about Uma, a child woman growing old on the veranda with MamaPapa (her parents evolved into one controlling entity). She is pulled from the convent school in the early grades to help at home when the long-desired boy child Arun arrives. It is she who years later must box up the tea and shawl to warm her brother, studying in America. Plain and myopic, Uma hides behind her spectacles and boxes up her dreams as carefully as her collection of gilt-edged Christmas cards carefully keeping them both without quite knowing what to do with either.

79. HallAuthors.com :: Desai, Anita
    You are here Authors AZ (Authors D ) desai, anita. In Custody Book by anitadesai List Price $4.95 Our Price $4.95 Brand/Publisher Penguin Books  
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80. Anita Desai--A Critical Biography
    Elizabeth Ostberg February 12, 2000. Notes on the Biography of anita desai. anitadesai was born in 1935 in Delhi to a German mother and a Bengali father.  
    http://www.haverford.edu/engl/engl277b/Contexts/anita_desai.htm
    
    Extractions: February 12, 2000. Notes on the Biography of Anita Desai Anita Desai was born in 1935 in Delhi to a German mother and a Bengali father. She grew up speaking German at home and Bengali, Urdu, Hindi and English at school and in the city streets. She has said that she grew up surrounded by Western literature and music, not realizing until she was older that this was an anomaly in her world where she also learned the Eastern culture and customs. She married a businessman at twenty-one and raised several children before becoming known for her writing. Her first book, Cry,the Peacock was published in England in 1963, and her better known novels include In Custody (1984) and Baumgartner's Bombay (1988). She once wrote: "I see India through my mother's eyes, as an outsider, but my feelings for India are my father's, of someone born here" (Griffiths). She never considered trying to first publish in India because there was no publisher in India who would be interested in fiction by an Indian writer (Jussawalla) and it was first in England that her work became noticed. U.S. readers were slower to discover her, due, she believes to England's natural interest in India and the U.S.'s lack of comprehension regarding the foreignness of her subject. But Desai only writes in English. This, she has repeatedly said,was a natural and unconscious choice for her: "I can state definitely that I did not choose English in a deliberate and conscious act and I'd say perhaps it was the language that chose me and I started writing stories in English at the age of seven, and have been doing so for thirty years now without stopping to think why "(Desai).

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