Anita Desai

The Village by the Sea: an Indian family story is a novel for young people by the Indian writer Anita Desai, published in London by Heinemann in 1982. It is based on the poverty, hardships and sorrow faced by a small rural, community in India. Desai won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged …

The Zigzag Way is a 2004 novel by Anita Desai. The novel is about an American academic and writer who goes with his girlfriend to Mexico and rediscovers his passion for fiction writing. The novel was received with mixed reviews. Liz Hoggard of The Guardian emphasized how the characters often get overwhelmed by the …

Le jeûne et le festin. La tyrannie et le laxisme familial. L'Inde et l'Amérique. Anita Desai, cette célèbre auteur indienne qui partage son temps entre New Delhi et les États-Unis, nous livre une superbe mise en miroir des traditions familiales de ces deux pays. Dans l'un, les lois sacro-saintes de la famille …