Clear Light of Day [Hardcover]

Anita Desai (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st edition (May 1980)
• ISBN-10: 0060110791
• ISBN-13: 978-0060110796
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #296,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully accomplished, January 13, 2004

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HORAK (Zug, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Games at Twilight and Other Stories (Paperback)

Anita Desai's short stories reflect the kaleidoscope of modern Indian life. They are set in contemporary Bombay and other cities and they evoke the colours, sounds, smells and white-hot heat of Indian cities. The stories are peopled with intensely individual characters: there is a painter living in a slum who fills his paintings with landscapes, birds and flowers he has never seen. There is an American woman who turns to the hippies in the Indian hills because she is unhappy with her life in the verdant countryside of Vermont. There is a man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon. And many more. It is a finely written, atmospheric, memorable collection of short stories. As always with Anita Desai, her work is warm, perceptive, both funny and touched with sadness.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Anita Desai: One of the Most Infleuncial Authors of out Time, December 19, 2000

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Naked Dude (Somewhere out there...) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Clear Light of Day (Hardcover)

Anita Desai is a very famous author from India. In her story, "Games at Twilight," a peaceful game of hide & seek turns into an unforgettable nightmare for one boy.