Anita Desai, Author . Houghton Mifflin $23 (159p) ISBN 978-0-618-04215-9
Like the recent film Lost in Translation
, Desai's new novel tells of an American adrift in a foreign culture that remains frustratingly inscrutable. Eric is a New England–born graduate student in history at Harvard who follows his...
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Anita Desai, Author Mariner Books $13.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-618-06582-0
Short-listed for the 1999 Booker Prize, Desai's stunning new novel (after Journey to Ithaca) looks gently but without sentimentality at an Indian family that, despite Western influence, is bound by Eastern traditions. As Desai's title implies, the...
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Anita Desai, Author Mariner Books $12 (224p) ISBN 978-0-618-04213-5
The nine stories in this collection from Desai (Fasting, Feasting) are served up with characteristic perspicuity, subtle humor and attention to the little hypocrisies of the middle class. Diverse settings and domestic dramas frame universal themes,...
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Anita Desai, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (312p) ISBN 978-0-679-43900-4
Desai's exquisite, exotic 10th novel follows well-to-do European newlyweds who, in 1975, embark on a spiritual search in India. The husband, an Italian named Matteo, joins an ashram and becomes a fervent devotee of an aged, solitary guru known as ``t
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Anita Desai, Author Penguin Books $15 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-025818-9
A disaffected European couple drift apart while seeking enlightenment in India. (Dec.)
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Anita Desai, Author Penguin Books $9 (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-013176-5
Hugo Baumgartner narrowly escapes the Nazis by fleeing to Calcutta. There he is imprisoned alongside dedicated Nazis by indifferent Anglo-Indian authorities. PW found the book ``occasionally irritating in its appropriation of history for its own...
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Anita Desai. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $23 (176p) ISBN 978-0-547-57745-6
Desai’s unsettling collection of novellas explores the slow, threatening creep of outside influence into closed communities. In “The Museum of Final Journeys,” an isolated bureaucrat is confronted with a “chamber of death,” a remote, bizarre museum...
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Anita Desai, Author, Ann Close, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-394-57229-1
This ninth novel by Desai ( Clear Light of Day ; Games at Twilight ), a professor at Mount Holyoke College, reflects the author's background: her mother was German, her father Indian. The novel's hero, Hugo Baumgartner, is a perpetual outsider....
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Anita Desai. Scribner, $22 (112p) ISBN 978-1-668-08243-0
In this provocative if underdeveloped offering from Desai (Fasting, Feasting), an Indian woman studying Spanish in Mexico learns her late mother took a similar path many years earlier. While on a park bench in San Miguel de Allende, Bonita is...
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