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Rosarita
Av Anita Desai
Häftad, 2025
125 kr
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'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie'Every new work from her is a gift' - Kamila Shamsie'Rosarita is transcendent . . . a testament to Desai’s enduring genius as a writer' - The Guardian'Tantalising' - Financial TimesFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author Anita Desai, Rosarita …
Dagens klara ljus
Av Anita Desai
Inbunden, 2016
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
180 kr
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Anita Desais roman Dagens klara ljus (Clear Light of Day) i nyöversättning av Andreas Vesterlund. Boken nominerades till Man Booker-priset och tillhör Desais allra bästa. Det här är litteratur på högsta, på svindlande högsta nivå. Dagens klara ljus handlar om Tara och hennes syskon som har vuxit …
Journey to Ithaca
Av Anita Desai
Häftad, 2001
203 kr
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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', but down-to-earth Sophie, who accompanies him, does not find her inspiring so much as mysterious, and …
Fire On The Mountain
Av Anita Desai
Häftad, 2026
139 kr
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Vivid and alive, this powerful novella about one woman's belated rebellion against the powers that be is Anita Desai at her finest.Nanda Kaul retreats to a quiet house in the hills, determined to live out her days in solitude. But the arrival of her great-granddaughter disrupts the stillness she …
Baumgartners Bombay
Av Anita Desai
Inbunden, 2016
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
184 kr
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Anita Desais flerfaldigt prisbelönta roman Baumgartners Bombay i nyöversättning av Andreas Vesterlund. En oerhört stark roman. Visserligen oerhört dyster, men ändå stark, ändå på något märkligt vis hoppfull, meningsfull, levande. Romanen visar hur kärleken och gemenskapen (ofta i förtvivlan) …
Games At Twilight
Av Anita Desai
Häftad, 2001
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
178 kr
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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 with sadness, Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters - the man …
Diamond Dust & Other Stories
Av Anita Desai
Häftad, 2001
203 kr
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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 protagonists set out on journeys and find themselves suddenly beyond the pale, or surprisingly back where …
In Custody
Av Anita Desai
Häftad, 2001
126 kr
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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 from the meanness of his daily life when he is asked to interview India's greatest Urdu poet, Nur - a …
Village by the Sea
Av Anita Desai
E-bok, 2015
91 kr
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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 sisters, going when their mother is ill and their father usually the worse for drink. When Hari goes …
Artist of Disappearance
Three Novellas
Av Anita Desai
E-bok, 2011
91 kr
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Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction"The excellent strength [the novellas] share is a gracefulness and dreamlike sonority, reminiscent of writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and W.G. Sebald, wherein strange evolutions of solitary lives are the rule, and readers are held by the stately, hypnotic …
Museum of Final Journeys
A Novella
Av Anita Desai
E-bok, 2011
52 kr
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First published in the "striking" collection, The Art of Disappearance, a novella about government bureaucrat in India who has a change of perspective (New York Times).Disappointed by his professional and social position, an entitled and officious junior civil servant imagines that his life will …
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A Novella
Av Anita Desai
E-bok, 2011
148 kr
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First published in the "striking" collection, The Art of Disappearance, a novella about the the relationship between a writer and her translator (New York Times).Distraught by her own lack of accomplishment—especially in comparison to that of a childhood rival who has become a famous and successful …
Rosarita
Av Anita Desai
Inbunden, 2024
160 kr
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'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie'Every new work from her is a gift' - Kamila Shamsie'Rosarita is transcendent . . . a testament to Desai’s enduring genius as a writer' - The Guardian'Tantalising' - Financial TimesFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author Anita Desai, Rosarita …
Rosarita
From the three times Booker-shortlisted author
Av Anita Desai
E-bok, 2024
170 kr
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'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie'Every new work from her is a gift' - Kamila Shamsie'Rosarita is transcendent . . . a testament to Desai’s enduring genius as a writer' - The Guardian'Tantalising' - Financial TimesFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author Anita Desai, Rosarita …
Zigzag Way
Av Anita Desai
E-bok, 2011
100 kr
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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 gradually seduced - by the strangeness, the colour, the mysteries of an older world. He finds …
Journey to Ithaca
Av Anita Desai
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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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', but down-to-earth Sophie, who accompanies him, does not find her inspiring so much as mysterious, and …
Fire On The Mountain
A rebellious novella on family, feminism and freedom from the Booker shortlisted author of Clear Light of Day
Av Anita Desai
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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Vivid and alive, this powerful novella about one woman's belated rebellion against the powers that be is Anita Desai at her finest.Nanda Kaul retreats to a quiet house in the hills, determined to live out her days in solitude. But the arrival of her great-granddaughter disrupts the stillness she …
Artist of Disappearance
Av Anita Desai
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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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 still haunted by the past, and to characters who are, each in their own way, masters of …
Baumgartner's Bombay
Av Anita Desai
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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A perceptive observation about the human race cleverly constructed and told with Desai's opulent vocabulary.
Clear Light of Day
A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick
Av Anita Desai
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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**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 in Delhi, Tara's visit brings a sharp reminder of life outside tradition. For Bim, coping endlessly with …
Diamond Dust & Other Stories
Av Anita Desai
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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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 protagonists set out on journeys and find themselves suddenly beyond the pale, or surprisingly back where …
Fasting, Feasting
Av Anita Desai
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1999 BOOKER PRIZEUma, 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 Aruna, who brings off a 'good' marriage, and brother Arun, the disappointing son …
Games At Twilight
Av Anita Desai
E-bok, 2011
100 kr
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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 with sadness, Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters - the man …
In Custody
Av Anita Desai
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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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 from the meanness of his daily life when he is asked to interview India's greatest Urdu poet, Nur - a …
