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.
| ISBN: | 9780099428534 |
| Publication date: | 4th October 2001 |
| Author: | Anita Desai |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 137 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Street fiction / urban fiction Narrative theme: Identity / belonging Narrative theme: Sense of place Narrative theme: Social issues Shorter Reads |