by Anita Desai · Gradiva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789726627579
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«A Luz Brilhante do Dia» is the novel by Anita Desai, published by Gradiva in paperback (222 pages, in Portuguese).
Tara returns to her childhood home and her visit stirs up old resentments and frustrations in Bim, the elder sister. Bim has devoted her life to caring for Baba, her autistic brother, and the reunion does not bring the expected joy: unfulfilled expectations and the complexity of fraternal love come to the surface.
Original work from 1980, nominated for the Booker Prize; this Portuguese edition appeared in April 2000.
For readers of literary fiction who appreciate intimate portraits of family life and Indian narrative.
Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and the emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Literature. She won the Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea (1983). Her other works include Cry, the Peacock, Voices in the City (1963), Fire on the Mountain (1977) and an anthology of short stories, Games at Twilight (1978). She is on the advisory board of the Lalit Kala Akademi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London. Since 2020 she has been a Companion of Literature.
