by Anita Desai · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140119077
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«Games at Twilight and Other Stories» is Anita Desai's collection of eleven short stories, published by Penguin in paperback (144 pages, in English).
The volume brings together eleven stories set in India. Among them are the tale of an American wife who, nostalgic for her rural Vermont, seeks solace among the hippies of the Indian hills, and that of a painter who creates images of creatures he has never seen.
The work was originally published in 1978; this 1990 Penguin edition is part of the King Penguin series.
For readers of literary fiction and short stories, with a particular interest in literature set in India.
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.
