Bye-Bye Blackbird

Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Vision/Orient paperbacks
Year: 1999/2006
Language: English
Pages: 230
ISBN/UPC (if available): 812220029X

Description

More than a novel, it is a psychological study of the love-hate relationship the immigrants have towards their country of adoption.

The colored immigrants from India and other countries - the blackbirds - have a hard time in England. Many are partly rejected, other totally. But the flow continues .. And Anita Desai has treated this theme in this widely acclaimed novel.

REVIEWS:

Anita Desai touches on a very real problem, a facet of east is east and west is west which has been hitherto little explored in novel form. - The Statesman

Characters glow with life, the scenes are delicately painted and the nuances of changing mood skillfully transmitted. - The Hindu