- Published: 1 August 2012
- ISBN: 9780099553953
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $34.99
The Artist of Disappearance
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- Published: 1 August 2012
- ISBN: 9780099553953
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $34.99
Elegantly paced and smartly crafted
Fatima Bhutto, Financial Times
Profoundly elegiac
Margaret Drabble, New Statesman
Anita Desai writes exquisitely
Allan Massie, Scotsman
Bewitchingly beautiful
The Times
She is one of the best English language novelists of modern times
Daily Telegraph
From a web of connections, Desai spins stories of history and loss that move the reader not with epiphanies, but through the sheer beauty of her storytelling
Time Out
Her writing is sensuous, radical and uncannily perceptive
The Times
India's finest writer in English
Independent