Clear Light of Day - Couverture rigide

Desai, Anita

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 006010984X ISBN 13 : 9780060109844

Editeur : HarperCollins, 1980

Synopsis

Book by Desai Anita

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Set in India's Old Delhi, CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY is Anita Desai's tender, warm, and compassionate novel about family scars, the ability to forgive and forget, and the trials and tribulations of familial love. At the novel's heart are the moving relationships between the members of the Das family, who have grown apart from each other. Bimla is a dissatisfied but ambitious teacher at a women's college who lives in her childhood home, where she cares for her mentally challenged brother, Baba. Tara is her younger, unambitious, estranged sister, married and with children of her own. Raja is their popular, brilliant, and successful brother. When Tara returns for a visit with Bimla and Baba, old memories and tensions resurface and blend into a domestic drama that is intensely beautiful and leads to profound self-understanding.

Revue de presse :

"A wonderful novel about silence and music, about the partition of a family as well as a nation" (New York Times Book Review)

"A rich Chekhovian novel by one of the most gifted of contemporary Indian writers" (New Yorker)

"Anita Desai has created an entire little civilization here from a fistful of memories, from a patchwork of sickroom dreams and childhood games and fairy tales. Clear Light of Day does what only the very best novels can do; it totally submerges us. It also takes us so deeply into another world that we almost fear we won't be able to climb out again" (Anne Tyler New York Times)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins
• Date d'édition: 1980
• ISBN 10: 006010984X
• ISBN 13: 9780060109844
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 183