by Anita Desai · Alianza Editorial Sa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420644516
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Polvo de diamante» is Anita Desai's collection of short stories, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (264 pages, in Spanish).
In nine stories set in everyday life, Anita Desai, a writer of Indian origin, combines humor, delicacy and compassion to portray anonymous people. The narrative cohesion and sensitivity of the collection make it a unified, intimate work with a Chekhovian tone.
The volume belongs to the Alianza Literaria collection. The work was originally published as 'Diamond Dust: Stories' in 2000.
For readers of contemporary short fiction, fans of brief narrative and book clubs.
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.
