Games at Twilight

Games at Twilight

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Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 138
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0099428539

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Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life-evoking the color, sounds and white-hot heat of the city.

Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched with sadness, Anita Desai’s stores are peopled with intensely individual characters- the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon; the American wife who, homesick for the verdant farmlands of Vermont, turns to the hippie in the Indian hills; the painter living in a slum who fills his canvasses with flowers, birds and landscapes he has never seen.

EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS

Absolutely first-rate…absorbing
-OBSERVER

Anita Desai is one of the most brilliant and subtle writers ever to have described the meeting of eastern and western culture
–ALISON LURIE

As finely written atmospheric pieces alone the stories would be memorable-as social documents they are absorbing. The volume’s profound theme is the tension between convention and exploration, family solidarity and individualism… An admirably humane and responsible achievement
-HERMIONE LEE, OBSERVER

Desai has a gift of opening up a closed world and making it clearly visible
-SUNDAY TIMES

Contents

Games at Twilight

Private Tuition by Mr. Bose

Studies in the Park

Surface Textures

Sale

Pineapple Cake

The Accompanist

A Devoted Son

The Farewell Party

Pigeons at Daybreak

Scholar and Gypsy