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  • Published: 31 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448104536
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Clear Light of Day




‘A rich Chekhovian novel by one of the most gifted of contemporary Indian writers’ New Yorker

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 their problems, there is a renewal of the old jealousies for, unlike her sister, she has failed to escape. Looking at both the cruelty and the beauty of family life and the harshness of India's modern history, Clear Light of Day brilliantly evokes the painful process of confronting and healing old wounds.

  • Published: 31 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448104536
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

About the author

Anita Desai

Born and educated in India, Anita Desai is the author of many novels and short stories, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody and Fasting, Feasting. She is the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Royal Society of Literature.

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