by Anita Desai · Houghton Mifflin (Trade) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780618042135
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«Diamond Dust» is Anita Desai's collection of short stories, published by Houghton Mifflin (Trade) in paperback (224 pages, in English).
The stories move between India and New England, with stops in Cornwall and Mexico, and explore the tension between social obligations and personal loyalties. The title story describes the disaster caused by a man obsessed with his dog; the last portrays a young woman who finds new freedom on the rooftops of Delhi.
The collection consists of nine stories; it was originally published in 2000 with ISBN 9780618042135.
For book clubs and for those seeking contemporary short fiction about India and the experience of living abroad.
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.
