Published in 1980, Clear Light of Day is generally regarded as Anita Desai’s finest work to date by critics. The author has identified it as her most autobiographical work as a result of being set in the neighborhood where she came of age. The...
Fire on the Mountain is a 1977 novel by Anita Desai that deals with the subject of solitude, existentialism and oppression of females in the Indian patriarchal society. The book tells the story of Nanda Kaul, a widowed reclusive woman living in...
The Village by the Sea is a novel written by Anita Desai and was published in 1982.
The novel focuses on a small family in India who lives in a village near the sea. The family is in a difficult situation because the mother is extremely sick and...
