The Artist of Disappearance
  • Published: 3 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446499191
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

The Artist of Disappearance

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3 Oct 2011
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A jewel of a book from India's finest living woman writer.

A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas make up Anita Desai's exquisite new book. Set in modern India, but where history still casts a long shadow, the stories move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the past, and to characters who are, each in their own way, masters of self-effacement.

Rich and evocative, remarkable in their clarity and sensuous in their telling, these stories remind us of the extraordinary yet delicate power of this pre-eminent writer.
  • Published: 3 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446499191
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176
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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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Also by Anita Desai

The Complete Stories
The Zigzag Way
The Village by the Sea
Clear Light of Day
Diamond Dust & Other Stories
Fasting, Feasting
In Custody
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Praise for The Artist of Disappearance

Anita Desai writes exquisitely

Allan Massie, Scotsman

Bewitchingly beautiful

The Times

Elegantly paced and smartly crafted

Fatima Bhutto, Financial Times

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

Profoundly elegiac

Margaret Drabble, New Statesman

She is one of the best English language novelists of modern times

Daily Telegraph