by Anita Desai · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099276180
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«Clear Light of Day» is Anita Desai's literary fiction novel, published by Vintage in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Tara's visit to the family home in Delhi awakens in Bim, the sister who carries the family's burdens, old jealousies toward the one who did manage to escape. Set in India in 1947, the novel weaves the country's history with family grudges and affection, and the painful process of healing the past.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1980, when it was originally published. This edition (New Ed) came out in March 2001.
For readers interested in Indian literature and in novels that combine family drama and historical context.
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.
