Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched with sadness, Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters - the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon; the American wife who, homesick for the verdant farmlands of Vermont, turns to the hippies in the Indian hills; the painter living in a slum who fills his canvasses with flowers, birds and landscapes he has never seen.
Product code: 9780099428534
| ISBN |
9780099428534 |
| Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) |
H198xW129xS9 |
| No. Of Pages |
144 |
| Publisher |
Vintage Publishing |