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by Anita Desai · Penguin · tapa blanda · 157 pages
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En un pequeño pueblo pesquero cerca de Bombay, Hari y Lila se enfrentan a tiempos difíciles. Con su padre alcohólico y su madre enferma, la familia lucha por sobrevivir. Hari decide irse a Bombay en busca de trabajo, mientras Lila se queda para cuidar de sus hermanas. A medida que los signos de la India industrial comienzan a aparecer en su pueblo, Hari y Lila se ven obligados a madurar y encontrar soluciones para el futuro de su familia.
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.
