LIBROS DEL AUTOR: anita desai

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  • The Artist of Disappearance
    Anita Desai
    A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas make up Anita Desai’s exquisite new book. Set in modern India but where history still casts a long shadow the stories move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the past and to characters who are each in their own way masters of self-effacement.Rich and evocative remarkable in their clarity and sensuous in their telling t...
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    18,25 €

  • Journey to Ithaca
    Anita Desai
    Like so many other young Westerners in the 1960s and 1970s Matteo leaves home to search for spiritual enlightenment in the ashrams of India. 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 tro...
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    23,58 €

  • The Zigzag Way
    Anita Desai
    Eric is an uncertain awkward young man a would-be writer and a traveller in spite of himself. Happy to follow his more confident girlfriend to Mexico he is overwhelmed with sensory overload but gradually seduced - by the strangeness the colour the mysteries of an older world. He finds himself on a curious quest for his own family in a ’ghost’ mining town now barely inha...
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    19,36 €

  • Diamond Dust & Other Stories
    Anita Desai
    Whole lives come into focus in this rich and diverse collection as Desai trains her luminous spotlight on private universes from India to Canada and New England from Cornwall to Mexico. Her protagonists set out on journeys and find themselves suddenly beyond the pale or surprisingly back where they started from. Caught up in cycles of hope and disappointment their lives a...
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    23,96 €