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Clear Light of Day
by Anita Desai · Vintage · tapa blanda · 192 pages
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Pages: 192 pagesAuthor: Anita DesaiPublisher: VintageFormat: tapa blandaLanguage: enRelease date: 1/3/2001ISBN: ISBN 9780099276180
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Synopsis of Clear Light of Day
En 'Clear Light of Day', Anita Desai nos transporta a una casa polvorienta en Delhi, donde la visita de Tara sirve como un crudo recordatorio de la vida fuera de las tradiciones familiares. Bim, quien se enfrenta constantemente a los problemas familiares, revive viejos rencores al ver que, a diferencia de su hermana, no ha logrado escapar de su destino. A través de una mirada a la crueldad y la belleza de la vida familiar, así como a la dureza de la historia moderna de la India, Desai evoca de manera brillante el doloroso proceso de confrontar y sanar viejas heridas. Una novela conmovedora que explora las complejidades de las relaciones familiares y el peso del pasado.
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Anita Desai
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.
Born in 1937Since 1963103 titles published63 writing
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