'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie'Every new work from her is a gift' - Kamil...

Finalist for the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction'The excellent strength [the novellas] share is a ...

'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie'Every new work from her is a gift' - Kamil...

Diese Sammlung von fünf modernen Kurzgeschichten zeigt mehrere Facetten des indischen Lebens von ...

A 'beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story' (Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY ...

The fight against childhood malnutrition is a world problem, but there is hope in the form of pro...

Nanda Kaul is old. She has chosen to spend her last years high up in the mountains where she can ...

The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Game...

A Penguin ClassicSet on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel o...

Upon the recent publication of Fasting, Feasting, critics raved about Anita Desai: 'Desai is more...

Hailed as “nsparing, yet tender and funny,”Fasting, Feasting is a “plendid novel”about siblings a...

In The Zigzag Way, the critically acclaimed novelist Anita Desai offers a gorgeously nuanced stor...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1999 BOOKER PRIZEUma, the plain, spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian fam...

Nove storie brevi, ambientate in luoghi diversi: Canada, New England, Cornovaglia, Messico - il p...

Una studentessa indiana siede su una panchina del Jardín di San Miguel de Allende, in Messico, qu...

Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a smal...

Fuego en la montaña

Winner of the 1982 Guardian Award for children's fiction, The Village by the Sea is a survival st...

A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas make up Anita Desai's exquisite new book. Set in moder...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: A “rich, Chekhovian novel” about family and forgiveness fro...

To the family living in the shabby, dusty house in Delhi, Tara's visit brings a sharp reminder of...

'Away from her home in India to study Spanish, Bonita sits on a bench in El Jardin de San Miguel,...

Rosarita

Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1982.