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 ...

Her thesis was on the intersection of postcolonial and feminist issues in the works of Anita Desai. This interest in rhetorical constructs and the composing process has led to a particular fondness ...

Since that first work in 1963, the Mussoorie-born Desai ... The couple has four children. Anita Desai left India at the age ...

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