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I see India through my mothers eyes, as an outsider, but my feelings for India
are my fathers, of someone born here.-Desai
My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to
structure my work too rigidly.-Desai
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the
truth.- Desai
Anita Desai was born in 1935 in Delhi to a German mother and a
Bengali father. Novelist, short-story writer and children's author,
Desais novels and short-stories evoke characters, events and moods
with recourse to a rich use of visual imagery and details, which has
led to comparisons with the modernist sensibilities of T. S.
Eliot, William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf.
1965
Voices in
the city

1963
Cry the
peacock

1977 Fire on
1979 The
the Mountain peacock
garden

1975
Where
shall we
go this
summer

1978
Games
at
twilight

1982 The Village

by The e Sea

1980
Clear
Light of
Day

1984 In
Custody,

1995 Journey to
Ithaca

1987
Baumgartner's
Bombay,

2000 Diamond
Dust

1995
Journey to
Ithaca

2011 The Artist

of
Disappearance

2004 The Zig

Zag Way