The Artist of Disappearance
(Sprache: Englisch)
An absolute jewel from one of Chatto's preeminent novelists: a triptych of stories from India's finest living woman writer
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An absolute jewel from one of Chatto's preeminent novelists: a triptych of stories from India's finest living woman writer
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A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas make up Anita Desai's exquisite new book. Set in modern India, but where history still casts a long shadow, the stories move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the past, and to characters who are, each in their own way, masters of self-effacement.
In 'The Museum of Final Journeys' an unnamed government official is called upon to inspect a faded mansion of forgotten treasures, each sent home by the absent, itinerant master. As he is taken through the estate, wondering whether to save these precious relics, he reaches the final - greatest - gift of all, looming out of the shadows.
In 'Translator, Translated', middle-aged Prema meets her successful publisher friend Tara at a school reunion. Tara hires her as a translator, but Prema, buoyed by her work and the sense of purpose it brings, begins deliberately to blur the line between writer and translator, and in so doing risks unravelling her desires and achievements.
The final story is of Ravi, living hermit-like in the burnt-out shell of his family home high up in the Himalayan mountains. He cultivates not only silence and solitude but a secret hidden away in the woods, concealed from sight. When a film crew from Delhi intrudes upon his seclusion, it compels him to withdraw even further until he magically and elusively disappears...
Rich and evocative, remarkable in their clarity and sensuous in their telling, these stories remind us of the extraordinary yet delicate power of this pre-eminent writer.
Autoren-Porträt von Anita Desai
Desai, AnitaBorn 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 Letters and the Royal Society of Literature.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Anita Desai
- 2011, 176 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 19,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Random House UK
- ISBN-10: 0701186208
- ISBN-13: 9780701186203
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.08.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Bewitchingly beautiful" The Times "To compare Anita Desai's fiction with that of Chekhov or the short stories of Tolstoy is not extravagant; it is entirely warranted... anyone looking for the rare frisson at the heart of consummate storytelling need look no farther" -- Eileen Battersby Irish Times "From a web of connections, Desai spins stories of history and loss that move the reader not with epiphanies, but through the sheer beauty of her storytelling" Time Out "A pleasure" -- Keith Miller Telegraph "Anita Desai writes exquisitely." The Scotsman
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