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    Anita Desai FRSL, born Anita Mazumdar (born 24 June 1937), is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.

  2. Anita Desai has 85 books on Goodreads with 77363 ratings. Anita Desais most popular book is Fasting, Feasting.

  3. Complete order of Anita Desai books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.

  4. Anita Desai was born in 1937. Her published works include adult novels, children's books and short stories. She is a member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delhi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London.

  5. Novelist, short-story writer and children's author Anita Desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie, India. She was educated at Delhi University. Her novels include Fire on the Mountain (1977), which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting, Feasting (1999), each of which was shortlisted for ...

  6. Jan 1, 1982 · Anita Desai writes about things she knows and things she does not, in the book, 'The Village by the sea'. Things she knows, Mumbai, wealth, how to sell Indian culture and the colors of India. What she does not know (among other things), poverty, what people who have no money are thinking, daily life.

  7. Anita Desai. Anita Desai is the author of many novels and short stories and has written widely for both adults and children. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody and Fasting, Feasting.

  8. Amazon.in: Anita Desai: Books. 1-16 of 71 results. Results. Fasting Feasting. by Anita Desai | 27 December 2021. 450. Paperback. ₹243. M.R.P: ₹399. (39% off) Get it by Tomorrow, 13 August. FREE Delivery over ₹499. Fulfilled by Amazon. Kindle Edition. ₹14440 (74% off) Available instantly. Hardcover. ₹7,78902.

  9. Desai specializes in long-term marriages, unbalanced friendships, and brilliant variations on the theme of the stranger as a catalyst for change. In the title story, a New Delhi bureaucrat's wife and colleagues look on in dismay as he gives himself over to his love for a devilish dog he calls Diamond.

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