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The Complete Stories

Anita Desai author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:7th Jun '18

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The complete short fiction by the three-times Booker shortlisted author, gathered together in a single volume for the first time

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.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.

Anita Desai is one of the greats of the modern short story ... The whole collection breathes old-style quality -- Phil Baker * The Sunday Times *
To compare Anita Desai's fiction with that of Chekhov or the short stories of Tolstoy is not extravagant; it is entirely warranted * Irish Times *
All her stories are full of a confidence in human nature that is a rarity and a pleasure to encounter * Spectator *
Anita Desai is one of the most brilliant and subtle writers ever to have described the meeting of eastern and western culture -- Alison Lurie

ISBN: 9781784706647

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 27mm

Weight: 312g

448 pages