Clear Light of Day: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick

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**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**Discover the classic, Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel from one of India’s finest ever writers.To the family living in the 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 a renewal of the old jealousies for, unlike her sister, she has failed to escape. Looking at both the cruelty and the beauty of family life and the harshness of India’s modern history, Clear Light of Day brilliantly evokes the painful process of confronting and healing old wounds.’Clear Light of Day does what only the best novels can do; it totally submerges us.’ Anne Tyler

Additional information

Weight 0.194 kg
Dimensions 1.7 × 13 × 19.7 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

272

Publisher

Year Published

2018-6-7

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1784873926

About The Author

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.

Review Quote

A wonderful novel about silence and music, about the partition of a family as well as a nation

Other text

A rich Chekhovian novel by one of the most gifted of contemporary Indian writers