{"title":"Anita Desai","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"clear-light-of-day","title":"Clear light of day","description":"\u003cp\u003e(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: \u003cspan\u003eanita desai\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCategories:  \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/fantasy\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: local\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover: Softcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook description :\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: A \"rich, Chekhovian novel\" about family and forgiveness from the acclaimed author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFire on the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt the heart of this wonderful novel are the moving relationships between the estranged members of the Das family. Bimla is a dissatisfied but ambitious teacher at a women's college who lives in her childhood home, where she cares for her mentally challenged brother, Baba. Tara is her younger, unambitious sister, married and with children of her own. Raja is their popular, brilliant, and successful brother. When Tara returns for a visit with Bimla and Baba, old memories and tensions resurface, blending into a domestic drama that leads to beautiful and profound moments of self-understanding.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet in the vividly portrayed environs of Old Delhi, \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eClear Light of Day\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e does what only the very best novels can do: it totally submerges us. It also takes us so deeply into another world that we alm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"anita desai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43670046179510,"sku":"","price":705.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/1794\/2710\/files\/35997.jpg?v=1734136852"},{"product_id":"fasting-feasting","title":"Fasting Feasting","description":"\u003ch5\u003e(NOTE: The Book cover may vary if published by different companies.)\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAuthor: \u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/anita-desai\"\u003eAnita Desai\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/emeran-mayer\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/paul-brickhill\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/haroon-khalid\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/nancy-l-johnston\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/lincoln-peirce\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eBinding: Softback\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eCategory: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/family\"\u003eFamily\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/fiction\"\u003eFiction \u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/english\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/non-fiction\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/health\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/romance\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/history\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/children\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/non-fiction\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/historical-fiction\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/mystery\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/historical-fiction\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/romance\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/psychology\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/historical-fiction\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/romance\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/religion\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/business\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003ePublisher: Local \u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePages: 175\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the book: \u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eA wonderful novel in two parts, moving from the heart of a close-knit Indian household, with its restrictions and prejuices, its noisy warmth and sensual appreciation of food, to the cool centre of an American family, with its freedom and strangely self-denying attitudes to eating. In both it is ultimately the women who suffer, whether, paradoxically, from a surfeit of feasting and family life in India, or from self-denial and starvation in the US. or both. Uma, the plain, older daughter still lives at home, frustrated in her attempts to escape and make a life for herself. Her Indian family is difficult , demanding but mostly, good hearted. Despite her disappointments, Uma comes through as the survivor, avoiding an unfulfilling marriage, liek her sister's or a suicidal one, like that arranged for her pretty cousin. And in America, where young Arun goes as a student, men in the suburbs char hunks of bleeding meat while the women don't appear to cook or eat at all - seems bewildering and terriying to the young Indian adolescent far from home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Anita Desai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67604118077622,"sku":null,"price":625.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/1794\/2710\/files\/271734.jpg?v=1791461571"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/1794\/2710\/collections\/271734.jpg?v=1791461863","url":"https:\/\/booksvilla.com.pk\/collections\/anita-desai.oembed","provider":"Booksvilla.pk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}