Clear Light of Day
Autor Anita Desaien Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 sep 2000 – vârsta ani
Set
in
India's
Old
Delhi,
CLEAR
LIGHT
OF
DAY
is
Anita
Desai's
tender,
warm,
and
compassionate
novel
about
family
scars,
the
ability
to
forgive
and
forget,
and
the
trials
and
tribulations
of
familial
love.
At
the
novel's
heart
are
the
moving
relationships
between
the
members
of
the
Das
family,
who
have
grown
apart
from
each
other.
Bimla
is
a
dissatisfied
but
ambitious
teacher
at
a
women's
college
who
lives
in
her
childhood
home,
where
she
cares
for
her
mentally
challenged
brother,
Baba.
Tara
is
her
younger,
unambitious,
estranged
sister,
married
and
with
children
of
her
own.
Raja
is
their
popular,
brilliant,
and
successful
brother.
When
Tara
returns
for
a
visit
with
Bimla
and
Baba,
old
memories
and
tensions
resurface
and
blend
into
a
domestic
drama
that
is
intensely
beautiful
and
leads
to
profound
self-understanding.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780618074518
ISBN-10: 0618074511
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:Mariner Books.
Editura: HMH Books
Colecția Mariner Books
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0618074511
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:Mariner Books.
Editura: HMH Books
Colecția Mariner Books
Locul publicării:United States
Recenzii
“A
wonderful
novel
about
silence
and
music,
about
the
partition
of
a
family
as
well
as
a
nation.”
The New York Times
“A rich, Chekhovian novel by one of the most gifted of contemporary Indian writers.”
The New Yorker
The New York Times
“A rich, Chekhovian novel by one of the most gifted of contemporary Indian writers.”
The New Yorker
Descriere
Set
in
India's
Old
Delhi,
CLEAR
LIGHT
OF
DAY
is
Anita
Desai's
tender,
warm,
and
compassionate
novel
about
family
scars,
the
ability
to
forgive
and
forget,
and
the
trials
and
tribulations
of
familial
love.
At
the
novel's
heart
are
the
moving
relationships
between
the
members
of
the
Das
family,
who
have
grown
apart
from
each
other.
Bimla
is
a
dissatisfied
but
ambitious
teacher
at
a
women's
college
who
lives
in
her
childhood
home,
where
she
cares
for
her
mentally
challenged
brother,
Baba.
Tara
is
her
younger,
unambitious,
estranged
sister,
married
and
with
children
of
her
own.
Raja
is
their
popular,
brilliant,
and
successful
brother.
When
Tara
returns
for
a
visit
with
Bimla
and
Baba,
old
memories
and
tensions
resurface
and
blend
into
a
domestic
drama
that
is
intensely
beautiful
and
leads
to
profound
self-understanding.
Notă biografică
Born and educated in India, Anita Desai is the author of many novels and short stories, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody and Fasting, Feasting. She is the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of Literature.