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Anita Desai
Birth date: June 24, 1937
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Merle
Merle rated it 5 years ago
I liked this book a lot. It’s an emotionally rich and nuanced tale of four adult siblings and their formative years in an old home in Delhi, where the tough, passionate older sister, Bimla, still lives, teaching history and caring for their mentally challenged younger brother. The timid younger sist...
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b00k r3vi3ws rated it 11 years ago
This is one of the few cases where I have watched the movie before reading the book. Having watched the amazing movie couple of years back and Anita Desai’s name raised my expectations really high.Deven is a Hindi lecturer, living a modest life in a small town. But nothing is okay in his life. His w...
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b00k r3vi3ws rated it 11 years ago
I absolutely am in LOVE with this lady’s works. Every time I think that things can’t get better and that one of these days one of her books will not be able to live up to the expectation that I associate with her name… She just goes ahead and proves me wrong every single time!‘Journey to Itchaca’ is...
janeg
janeg rated it 12 years ago
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b00k r3vi3ws rated it 12 years ago
The Artist of Disappearance is a collection of three very different yet very similar novellas.The first, The Museum of Final Journeys, narrates a story of a Civil Service Officer who started his career from a post in a remote district of the country. It was perhaps not the most glamorous post that o...
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