Anita Desai Bücher

An einem heißen Sommertag besucht Tara, die seit vielen Jahren in Washington lebt, ihr Elternhaus in Neu-Delhi. Im Gespräch mit der älteren Schwester Bim, die nie von zu Hause weggegangen ist, wird die Vergangenheit wieder lebendig. Was Tara abstößt, die Unveränderlichkeit im Hause der längst verstorbenen Eltern, ist für die Schwester eine Beruhigung. Zwei Welten stoßen aufeinander. 'Ein reicher Roman von einer der begabtesten indischen Autorinnen der Gegenwart.' (The New Yorker.)

Calcutta (renamed Kolkata in 2001) is a city of extremes, where exquisite refinement rubs shoulder with coarse commercialism and political violence. Krishna Dutta explores these multiple paradoxes, giving personal insight into Calcutta's unique history and modern identity as reflected in its architecture, literature, cinema, and music.

A classic of our time Untouched by the twentieth century, Thul, the small fishing village near Bombay, is still ruled by the age-old seasonal rhythms. Hari and Lila have lived in the village all their lives, but their family is now desperately down on its luck. Their father drinks; their mother is seriously ill; and there is no money to keep them fed and clothed. Delicately and exquisitely executed, Anita Desaiýs gentle and probing story traces the evolution of Hari and Lila into adults as each of them faces the familyýs predicamentýjust as the first signs of industrial India creep into their villages.