Anita Desai wurde 1937 geboren; ihr Vater war Bengali, ihre Mutter Deutsche. Sie verfasste zahlreiche Romane, Kurzgeschichten und Kinderbücher. Mit ihrem Roman “Berg im Feuer”, 1986 im List Verlag erschienen, gelang ihr der Durchbruch in Deutschland.
23 Ebooks door Anita Desai
Anita Desai: Zigzag Way
A young American in Mexico discovers his family’s pastand a present-day dangerin this ‘;elegant, exquisite’ novel of suspense (Elle). Eric is a newly minted historian just out of graduate school, …
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Anita Desai: Fasting, Feasting
This Man Booker Prize finalist is a “splendid novel” about siblings and their very different lives in India and America (The Wall Street Journal). Uma, the plain spinster daughter …
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€18.78
Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: A “rich, Chekhovian novel” about family and forgiveness from the acclaimed author of Fire on the Mountain (The New Yorker). At the heart …
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€18.83
Anita Desai: Diamond Dust
A collection of stories stretching from India to New England to Mexico from the author of Fasting, Feasting—an “undeniable genius” (The Washington Post Book World). The men and …
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€22.43
Rumer Godden: River
By the bestselling author of Black Narcissus and The Battle of the Villa Fiorita’The River will make you laugh, make you cry and, in its way, change you forever’ JULIE MYERSON’Her prose is pure, …
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€3.99
Anita Desai: Journey to Ithaca
Sophie and Matteo are young and in love, sharing a dissatisfaction with their bourgeois Italian upbringing. Naturally, like so many other young Westerners in the sixties and seventies, they go to …
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€11.97
Anita Desai: Games at Twilight
A delectable offering of the best stories written by master storytellers, including Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Satyajit Ray, R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth, to name a few. Each story …
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Anita Desai: Village by the Sea
The Village by the Sea is a survival story by the novelist Anita Desai. Set in a small fishing villlage near Bombay, Lila and Hari, aged 13 and 12, struggle to keep the family, including two young …
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Anita Desai: Zigzag Way
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 …
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Anita Desai: Journey to Ithaca
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”, …
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Anita Desai: Fire On The Mountain
Nanda Kaul is old. She has chosen to spend her last years high up in the mountains where she can arrange her thoughts into tranquility. But her solitude is broken when her fragile and secretive …
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Anita Desai: Artist of Disappearance
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 …
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Anita Desai: Baumgartner”s Bombay
A perceptive observation about the human race cleverly constructed and told with Desai”s opulent …
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€8.99
Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day
**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK** Discover the classic, Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel from one of India”s finest ever writers. To the family living in the shabby, dusty house i …
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Anita Desai: Diamond Dust & Other Stories
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 …
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Anita Desai: Fasting, Feasting
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1999 BOOKER PRIZE 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 ambiti …
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Anita Desai: Games At Twilight
Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life – evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched …
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Anita Desai: In Custody
Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar in the north of India. An impoverished college lecturer, Deven, sees a way to escape …
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Anita Desai: The Complete Stories
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. …
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Rabindranath Tagore: Home and the World
Set on a Bengali noble’s estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the …
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€8.49
Various: Hurricanes in Perfect Power
A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite. ______________ ”To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect p …
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