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Collected Stories
Anita Desai
其他書名
Including Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight
出版Random House Publishers India Pvt. Limited, 2012-10-19
主題Fiction / Short Stories (single author)Fiction / General
ISBN81840034399788184003437
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ROvi6q0gVZ8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Buried resentments, unexpected disappointments, new friendships, small acts of cruelty, journeys that take you back to where you started. With trademark compassion and tender irony, Anita Desai’s short stories give us familiar worlds made unfamiliar, to wonderful effect. An ageing couple is stranded in a stultifying Delhi summer by the visit of a roguish old Oxford friend, who trades on his charm; an American woman turns to hippies living in the Indian hills, homesick for the farmlands of Vermont; a dog terrorizes the neighbourhood but is cherished by his stern master; a Delhi girl of slender means finds a new kind of freedom with her young friends, in her barsati home; a peaceful game of hide and seek turns into a nightmare; a businessman sees his own death. In one masterly volume, for the first time ever, here are Anita Desai’s collected stories —­­including Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight.