Books by Anita Desai

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Clear Light of Day

by Anita Desai
333 pages - - Free New!

“Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai” is a popular book that is now available for download in PDF and ePub format. “Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai” is the author of this impressive book. Here is the summary of this book; At the heart of this wonderful novel are the moving relationships between the estranged members of the Das family. Bimla is a dissatisfied but ambitious teacher at a women’s college who lives in her childhood home, where she cares for her mentally challenged brother, Baba. Tara is her younger, unambitious sister, married and with children of her own. Raja is their popular, brilliant, and successful brother. When Tara returns for a visit with Bimla and Baba, old memories and tensions resurface, blending into a domestic drama that leads to beautiful and profound moments of self-understanding.

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Fasting, Feasting

by Anita Desai
333 pages - - Free New!

“Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai” is a popular book that is now available for download in PDF and ePub format. “Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai” is the author of this impressive book. Here is the summary of this book; Uma, the plain spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions—unlike her ambitious younger sister, who has made a “good” marriage and managed to escape. Meanwhile their brother Arun, the disappointing son and heir, is studying in America, living in a Massachusetts suburb with the Patton family—where he finds himself bewildered by the culture that surrounds him . . .