Los Angeles Times: Book review: ‘The Artist of Disappearance’ by Anita Desai
In changing India, where deep-rooted tradition meets the great, cruel engine of unbridled capitalism, stories of loss, beauty and hurt abound. Anita Desai mines this territory artfully, again and ...
The long journey of Anita Desai has taken her full circle, from the hilltop aerie in India’s Himalayan foothills where she was born to another one in the Hudson Valley, where she now lives. Before ...
Apr. 30 - "Fasting, Feasting" is Anita Desai's 12th novel. Considered one of the foremost Indian authors writing in English today, she has been widely praised as the finest of her generation and one ...
Anita Desai's new collection of stories, The Artist of Disappearance, reads a bit like three symphonic movements in a minor key. They're three novellas, set in modern India, where the past is giving ...
Scroll: Sunday book pick: The tender preoccupations of an old woman in Anita Desai’s ‘Fire on the Mountain’
“...Each felt she was doing her best at avoiding the other but found it was not so simple to exist and yet appear not to exist.” The protagonist of Anita Desai ...
Sunday book pick: The tender preoccupations of an old woman in Anita Desai’s ‘Fire on the Mountain’
The Washington Post: Book review: Gripping novellas in Anita Desai’s ‘Artist of Disappearance’
If you've never read anything by Anita Desai, you're out of excuses. One of India's most celebrated writers, she's been publishing for almost 50 years and come close to winning the Booker Prize three ...
In The Artist of Disappearance - three disquieting novellas collected under one title - Anita Desai considers the creation and consumption of art. What constitutes a collection? How far should a ...