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The Complete Stories

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The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai’s short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author. From the icy suburbs of Canada to the overcrowded B&Bs of Cornwall, via the hill towns and cities of India, Anita Desai observes human behaviour unflinchingly but not unkindly, recognising our ordinariness and our strangeness, and capturing both with quiet precision.

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Weight 0.312 kg
Dimensions 2.7 × 13 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
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Pages

448
Publisher

Year Published

2018-6-7
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1784706647
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

Anita Desai is one of the greats of the modern short story … The whole collection breathes old-style quality
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To compare Anita Desai's fiction with that of Chekhov or the short stories of Tolstoy is not extravagant; it is entirely warranted

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