41. Reader's Guide: Anita Desai: Fasting, Feasting And Diamond Dust anita desai is one of the most brilliant and subtle writers ever to have describedthe meeting of eastern and western culture. — Alison Lurie. anita desai. http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/desai_fasting_feasting.shtml

Fasting, Feasting and Diamond Dust: Stories b y Anita Desai FASTING, FEASTING Questions for Discussion DIAMOND DUST: STORIES Questions for Discussion About the Author, ... Glossary India's finest writer in English. Desai has a remarkable eye . . . for the things that give life texture. Anita Desai is one of the most brilliant and subtle writers ever to have described the meeting of eastern and western culture. FASTING, FEASTING A Booker Prize Finalist From an Indian summer's sun and dust to a New England summer's "white heat," Fasting, Feasting Across the world, Arun is bewildered by American college life, especially by the ways of the Pattons, with whom he spends the summer. Mr. Patton's devotion to red meat, Mrs. Patton's commitment to a well-stocked kitchen, their son Rod's dedication to physical fitness, and daughter Melanie's bulimia confuse and frighten Arun and move him to reassess everything he has ever taken for granted. Hailed in Britain as and as "rich in the sensuous atmosphere, elegiac pathos and bleak comedy at which the author excels" (

42. The New York Review Of Books: Anita Desai Bibliography of books and articles by anita desai, from The New York Reviewof Books. The New York Review of Books Home anita desai. anita http://www.nybooks.com/authors/456

@import "/css/default-b.css"; Home Your account Current issue Archives ... NYR Books Anita Desai Anita Desai is the author, most recently, of Diamond Dust , a collection of short stories. (December 2002) December 19, 2002 Cards of Identity The Secret by Eva Hoffman December 21, 2000 Passion in Lahore Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid October 8, 1998 The Crack In the China Death in Summer by William Trevor March 3, 1994 Damsels in Distress Women Writing in India, Vol. II: The Twentieth Century edited by Susie Tharu, edited by K. Lalita May 27, 1993 Sitting Pretty A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth January 16, 1992 'Women Well Set Free' Women Writing in India Vol. I: 600 BC to the Early Twentieth Century edited by Susie Tharu, edited by K. Lalita Truth Tales: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India edited by Kali for Women, Introduction by Meena Alexander June 27, 1991 India: The Seed of Destruction December 6, 1990 Jews, Indians, and Imperialists India's Bene Israel: A Comprehensive Inquiry and Sourcebook by Shirley Berry Isenberg Jews in British India: Identity in a Colonial Era by Joan G. Roland

43. SAJA: Anita Desai Profile SAJA Home Profiles Senior SAJAers SAJA Stylebook Bio of SAJAGuest Speaker anita desai, Author (Sep. 1997). anita desai, http://www.saja.org/anitadesai.html

SAJA Home Profiles Senior SAJAers SAJA Stylebook Bio of SAJA Guest Speaker: Anita Desai Author (Sep. 1997) ANITA DESAI A NITA DESAI is one of the world's best-known authors, and a writer who has influenced generations of writers (starting right at home: her daughter Kiran Desai 's novel was a celebrated debut in 1997). Since 1993, she has been teaching in MIT's Program in Writing (the first professorial appointment by the university in fiction writing in 20 years). Anita was born in 1937, in Mussoorie, India; her father was Bengali and mother German. She was educated in Delhi where she received an AB in English Literature from the University of Delhi. Her published works include short stories, children's books, and eight novels. Two of the novels, Clear Light of Day (1980) and In Custody (1984), were short-listed for the Booker Prize. She received the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction for the novel, The Village by the Sea (1982), and the 1978 National Academy of Letters Award for Fire on the Mountain (1977). Anita Desai is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London and she has been a member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delhi and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has been Visiting Fellow at Girton College , Cambridge, in England, and has taught writing at Smith College and has been the Purington Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College in the United States.

44. EL 6006 New Literatures In English 1998. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Viking/Faber and Faber. desai, anita. 1984.Clear Light of Day. Penguin. desai, anita. 1984. In Custody. Penguin. http://iele.au.edu/staff/amaley/EL_6006.html

Assumption University Institute for English Language Education MA in ELL EL 6006 - New Literatures in English Prof. Alan Maley About this course The main objectives of the course are to: ~ expose you to examples of texts which exemplify the themes, settings, character descriptions, and stylistic variation of these new literatures. ~ give you experience of both wide and deep reading ~ through many short extracts, and at least two longer full works. Each class session will usually be divided into two or three parts. There will be input from the lecturer, followed by some form of practical activity ~ discussion of a text, analysis, report on set texts, etc. What you will be expected to do. ~ There will be three set texts: Diamond Dust, by Anita Desai (India), The Bridegroom, by Ha Jin (China) The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, by Ayi Kwei Armah (Africa) Each of you will receive one text to read and study closely. But you will be expected to report on your readings to students who are reading a different book. ~ You will also need to choose one other novel or a collection of short stories or poems. Your book review will be based on this book.

45. IELE - On Line Catalogue D (page 3). 1 2 3 4 5 Author(s), Year, Title. desai, anita, (2000), Diamond Dust.desai, anita, (2000), Fasting, Feasting. desai, anita, (2001), Clear Light ofDay. http://iele.au.edu/res_centre/view.php?ltr=D&os=30

46. Anita Desai, Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Spring 2003, Baruch College From Baumgartner’s Bombay. anita desai. anita desai, the distinguished fictionwriter, is the Spring 2003 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/harman/desai.html

-From Anita Desai Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence, Spring 2003 Cry The Peacock Voices in the City Bye-Bye Blackbird Where Shall We Go This Summer? Fire on the Mountain Clear Light of Day In Custody Journey to Ithaca ; and Fasting, Feasting . She is also the author of two collections of short stories, most recently Diamond Dust and Other Stories ; several books for children, including The Peacock Garden Cat on a Houseboat , and The Village by the Sea ; and the screenplay for the screen adaptation of In Custody , filmed by Merchant Ivory Productions. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in England and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Ms. Desai has been awarded numerous prizes and honors, including the Winifred Holtby Prize of the Royal Society of Literature, the Padma Sri Award from the Government of India, the Moravia Prize for Literature, and the Neil Gunn Prize for International Literature from the Scottish Arts Council. Born in Mussoorie, India, Ms. Desai is a graduate of Miranda House, University of Delhi, and is fluent in English, German, and Hindi. Her extensive teaching career includes positions as the Elizabeth Drew Visiting Professor at Smith College, the Gildersleeves Professor at Barnard College, the Purington Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, and a visiting scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy. From 1993 through the fall of 2002, Ms. Desai was the John E. Burchard Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

47. Anita Desai, Fiction Writing Workshop, Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Spring anita desai. Sidney Harman Writerin-Residence, Spring 2003. This fiction writingworkshop will be taught by anita desai, the distinguished novelist. http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/harman/desai_course.html

Workshop: Fiction Writing A SPECIAL SPRING 2003 SEMINAR English 3610/3610H, SectionTZ3 Taught By Anita Desai Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence, Spring 2003 This fiction writing workshop will be taught by Anita Desai, the distinguished novelist. Ms. Desai will be on campus in spring 2003 as the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence. Cry The Peacock Voices in the City Bye-Bye Blackbird Where Shall we Go This Summer? Fire on the Mountain Clear Light of Day In Custody Journey to Ithaca ; and Fasting, Feasting . Ms. Desai has been awarded numerous prizes and honors. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in England and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In order to register for this course, students must submit samples of their writing for review by Professor Roslyn Bernstein (phone: 646-312-3930 and e-mail: roz_bernstein@baruch.cuny.edu Students who have taken a section of ENG 3610/3610H Fiction Writing Workshop taught by Visiting Professor John Edgar Wideman may enroll in this course with departmental permission. Return to Anita Desai biography or to Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence home page Last updated 1 November 2002 (RB/JHW) Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 5:45 PM

48. Anita Desai - Life And Work anita desai Life and Work A Guide to Resources. anita desai, thedistinguished BOOKS BY AND ABOUT anita desai To locate books by http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/news/events/desai.htm

ANITA DESAI Life and Work - A Guide to Resources Anita Desai , the distinguished fiction writer, is the Spring 2003 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. This page provides access to information about Anita Desai through library resources and Web links. There will be a reading and conversation with Prof. Desai on Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 5:45pm, in the Newman College Conference Center, 7th Floor, 151 East 25th Street. The reading is free and open to the public. During her semester at Baruch as a Harman Visiting Professor, Prof. Desai will teach a workshop on fiction writing Anita Desai FURTHER INFORMATION Books by and about Anita Desai Biographical material and critical articles Web sites Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Visiting Professorship ... BOOKS BY AND ABOUT ANITA DESAI: To locate books by and about Anita Desai at Baruch and in other CUNY libraries, search CUNY+Plus BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL AND CRITICAL ARTICLES: To locate biographical and critical materials on Anita Desai, use the following resources: The Literature Resource Center includes an extensive critical biography originally published in British Writers , Supplement 5 (Scribner's, 1999), as well as a selection of critical articles and reference sources and access to the MLA International Bibliography. Articles listed in MLA may be found in library databases by searching the

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50. New Page 1 anita desai. The Village By the Sea This is anita desai's first novel forchildren, and it received the Guardian Children's Fiction Award in 1982. http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/AuthorSelect.asp?Author=Anita Desai

51. Arts/Literature/Authors/D/Desai,_Anita Arts / Literature / Authors / D / desai, anita. anita desai Anoop Sarkar Comprehensiveresource profile bibliography with comments related links etc. http://www.arts-entertainment-recreation.com/Arts/Literature/Authors/D/Desai,_An

Search: Welcome to arts-entertainment-recreation.com, the comprehensive search portal dedicated to the arts. We have located some of the finest art and entertainment resources from across the Web and accumulated them into a single directory. Here you can choose from a wide variety of documents, reviews, articles, and Web sites about your favorite activities. Whether you enjoy film, Broadway shows, television, books, fine art, or travel, there is something here for you. As you peruse the directory, you will notice several categories pertaining to the arts. Feel free to navigate through these categories, from broad art-related topics to specific information on selected subjects. Our search portal also gives you the option to conduct a query using our intelligent search feature. Arts Literature Authors D Desai, Anita Anita Desai [Anoop Sarkar] Comprehensive resource profile bibliography with comments related links etc. URL: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~anoop/desai/ Anita Desai: Author's Calendar Biography and profile URL: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/desai.htm

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In This Edition Language and Literature Part 1: Literature and Writing Part 2: The Medium of Language Part 3: Language Sciences and Science Languages Prof. Isabelle de Courtivron Head of Foreign Languages and Literatures Prof. Steven Pinker Author of The Language Instinct and Words and Rules Prof. Anita Desai Award-winning novelist and writing instructor Geoffrey A. Landis '80 NASA scientist and science fiction writer Jade Wang '01 President of the MIT Science Fiction Society Kelly Clancy '03 Prize winning short story author openDOOR home Tell Us What You Think Questions and Answers: Professor Anita Desai Anita Desai Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from a story about Anita Desai that will appear in the MIT News section of the June issue of Technology Review magazine. Tucked away in a nondescript, rather bare office in building 14N off of Eastman Court, sits a professor whose skill and accomplishment in her field often go unnoticed by students-an unusual circumstance at a place like MIT where respect and admiration for faculty intellect are hallmarks of the learning that goes on there. The professor is Anita Desai, an award-winning fiction writer who, after 9 years of teaching in MIT's Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, is retiring this summer to devote herself to writing novels on a full-time basis.

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Books by Anita Desai available at The MIT Press Bookstore The following is a listing of all the books we carry by Anita Desai. Feel free to give us a ring at (617) 253-5249 or send email to books@mit.edu to check on availability and ordering. Anita Desai is Professor of Creative Writing, MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. Non-Press - Baumgartners Bombay Penguin , paperback Clear Light Of Day Penguin , paperback Penguin , paperback In Custody Penguin , paperback Journey To Ithaca Penguin The MIT Press Bookstore Kendall Square 292 Main Street Cambridge, MA 02142 M-F 9am-7pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 1pm-6pm books@mit.edu Ordering Information home contents ... email

55. Translations For Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay Notes for anita desai's Baumgartner's Bombay. by Paul Brians. Page no. German. English.2, mein Gott. my God! was ist dann, wie kannst du. what is it, how can you? 3. http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/baumgartner.html

Notes for Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay by Paul Brians Page no. German English mein Gott my God! was ist dann, wie kannst du what is it, how can you? My little mouse, my little rabbit, lovey. Meine kleine Maus, mein Hugo, Geliebter My little mouse, my Hugo, beloved Mutti Mommy Blutwurst, Leberwurst, Bratwurstwas willst du? Blood sausage, liver sausage, bratwurstwhat would you like? All pork sausages unavailable in Bombay. Coelho, Da Silva Portuguese names, the Portuguese settled early in Bombay; the others are typically Indian names. du Dummkopf stupid! baksheesh alms sahib Sir formal term of respectful address for a foreign man masala spices which cats would not like his god Zoroaster Farrokh, like many of his neighbors, is a a Parsi, a follower of the ancient Persian religion taught by the prophet (not god) Zarathustra, whose name is usually rendered "Zoroaster" in English sacred thread worn only by Brahmin men, the highest caste say they love Buddha Although Buddhism began in India, it almost entirely vanished from there centuries ago, with only remnants being absorbed into Hinduism. ashram center for meditation and worship piscine fish-like juice- wallah "Wallah" often means "vendor," as here

56. Salon Books | "Fasting, Feasting" By Anita Desai BY anita desai. 17, 2000 anita desai is a wonderfully subtle writer who achievesher powerful and poignant effects by stealth rather than by direct action. http://archive.salon.com/books/review/2000/02/17/desai/

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57. Anita Desai - Www.contemporarywriters.com anita desai. anita desai Biography Novelist, shortstory writer and children'sauthor anita desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie, India. http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth124&state=index=d

58. Anita Desai Etusivu Kirjailijat anita desai. anita desai. anita desai syntyi1937 Intiassa saksalaiselle äidille ja intialaiselle isälle. http://www.kaantopiiri.fi/Anita_Desai.htm

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Milano - 24 marzo 2000 Incontro con Anita Desai condotto da Anna Nadotti e Luciana Percovich. Luciana Percovich: Anna Nadotti: Anita Desai: I would like to explain why l'm writing in English when I have grown up with other languages, speaking and hearing other languages; most people seem to assume that it is a matter of choice that I chose English, but I don't think you make the choice when you are six years old and you go to school for the first time. It just happened to be at school where English was the first language I was taught to read and write; of course this happened when I was six and by that time I spoke Hindi, I spoke German but I think the fact that it was the first language that I read and wrote that made the lasting impression on me. Anita Desai: I don't regret this at all because through the English language the whole world of literature opened up to me, not only English but all the world literatures came to me through English translation. Anita Desai: And I think what made me a writer was that I instantly had the world of books. I loved to read them, I loved to have books around me. They were my greatest possessions the shelves of books I had. And so from very early this was the world I wanted to belong to. I didn't think of it being as an Indian world or an English world; to me it was the world of books. Anna Nadotti: Anita Desai: I don't know, I suppose it is because through the English language I had to reflect an Indian life; I was conscious maybe in a subconscious way, I was aware that I had to use the language that you could still see, hear, perceive the sounds and sights and images of India. And the way to do it was to keep the language always...I had this image in my mind, the language as pure as glass, so that this can be seen, so that you can see them, they are not obscured

60. India Travelogue: Bookshelf - Fasting & Feasting ~ Anita Desai. Review By Uma Ma Bookshelf Fasting, Feasting ~ anita desai. Uma MahadevanDasgupta reviews anitadesai's well-crafted novel that tells a simple tale. Price Rs. 195/- pp 228. http://www.indiatravelogue.com/book/book7.html

Search Bookshelf Fasting, Feasting ~ Anita Desai U ma Mahadevan-Dasgupta reviews Anita Desai's well-crafted novel that tells a simple tale. Price: Rs. 195/- pp 228. T he first thing that one notices about Anita Desai's novel Fasting, Feasting is that it's so well-crafted, almost to a fault. Desai has always taken care with her craft, writing a spare and austere prose as she tells of the dilemmas and disappointments of her middle-class protagonists. But in Fasting, Feasting with its careful counterpointing, beginning with the dichotomies of the title itself and the preoccupations within the story, Desai seems to have taken this technique further than it can be stretched. Book Reviews Weretiger The Tiger is a Gent The Other Tongue Where Streets Lead ... More... Author Interviews Kiran Nagarkar T he story is simple: parents, first daughter still unmarried, caring for them, wilting in her unhappiness; other daughter married and away; a son, abroad, sensitive and unhappy, trying to find his way in the midst of all the expectations under which he is weighted down. Fasting and deprivation of the spirit and the heart are the daughter Uma's destiny; feasting, to an extreme, is the fate of opulent America, where another daughter, Melanie, in another family, the Pattons with whom Arun goes to stay, is crawling into the shell of her own unhappiness. The book itself is in two separate parts, the first describing Uma's life in India, the second describing her brother Arun's days in America. T he story opens with the parents sitting together on the swing and discussing whether fritters will be enough for tea. Fritters? Here's where my difficulty with Desai begins. More than this unease with Indian words for Indian things, Desai's tone in this novel is not merely unhappy but bitter. We sense the bitterness in Uma's condition as she goes about her destiny of serving her querulous, self-obsessed parents; we sense her mother's quiet, rarely-displayed unhappiness; her father's own unfulfilled dreams, never spoken of; Anamika's absurdly sad end in a claustrophobic marriage; and Arun's unhappy fumblings in a strange land.

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