Anita Desai Libros Populares
Anita Desai Biografía y Hechos
Anita Desai es una escritora india de expresión inglesa, afincada en Estados Unidos. Anita Mazumdar nació en Mussoorie, al norte de Delhi, de padre bengalí y madre alemana.[1] Cursó sus estudios secundarios y universitarios en Delhi, graduándose en literatura inglesa en 1957. Al año siguiente contrajo matrimonio con el empresario Ashvin Desai. Es madre de cuatro hijos, entre ellos la también escritora Kiran Desai. Comenzó su carrera literaria en 1963, con la novela Cry, the Peacock. Ha publicado varias novelas y colecciones de relatos breves, así como libros dirigidos al público infantil. En sus obras son temas recurrentes las tensiones en el seno familiar o la alienación de las mujeres indias de clase media. Sus novelas más recientes han explorado también otros temas, como el antisemitismo en Alemania (El Bombay de Baumgartner), la desaparición de las costumbres tradicionales o los estereotipos occidentales acerca de la India. Ha recibido públicas alabanzas de escritores como Salman Rushdie.[2] Sus obras han sido traducidas a once lenguas. Tres de sus novelas (Clara luz del día, En custodia y Ayuno, festín) fueron finalistas, en 1980, 1984 y 1999, respectivamente, del prestigioso Premio Booker.[2] En custodia fue llevada al cine en 1993 por James Ivory e Ismail Merchant, con guion de la autora.[3] Obra 1963 - Cry, the Peacock 1965 - Voices in the City 1971 - Bye-Bye, Blackbird 1974 - The Peacock Garden 1975 - Where Shall We Go This Summer? 1976 - Cat on a Houseboat 1977 - Fire on the Mountain. Traducida al español: Fuego en la montaña. Traducción de María Corniero. Madrid, Horas y Horas, 1997. 1978 - Games at Twilight and Other Stories 1980 - Clear Light of Day. Traducido al español: Clara luz del día. Traducción de Gian Castelli. Madrid, Alianza, 2001. 1982 - Village by the Sea 1984 - In Custody. Traducido al español: En custodia. Traducción de Jesús Zulaika. Barcelona, Península, 1989. 1988 - Baumgartner's Bombay. Traducida al español: El Bombay de Baumgartner. Traducción de Gian Castelli. Madrid, Alianza, 2004. 1996 - Journey to Ithaca. Traducida al español: Viaje a Ítaca. Traducción de José Luis Fernández-Villanueva. Barcelona, Destino, 1997. 1999 - Fasting, Feasting. Traducida al español: Ayuno, festín. Traducción de Gian Castelli. Madrid, Alianza, 2000. 2000 - Diamond Dust. Traducida al español: Polvo de diamante y otros relatos. Traducción de Gian Castelli. Madrid, Alianza, 2002. 2004 - The Zigzag Way: A Novel Referencias . Descubre los libros populares de Anita Desai. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Anita Desai
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Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel
Fawzia Afzal-KhanCultural Imperialism and the IndoEnglish Novel focuses on the novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie and explores the tension in these novels b...
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Relationship
Nayantara SahgalIn this exchange of letters dating from an extremely turbulent period of their lives, Nayantara Sahgal and E.N. Mangat Rai, two very public figures who had remained at the same tim...
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The Political Imagination
Nayantara SahgalThrough the last five decades, Nayantara Sahgal has constantly responded to the changes that enveloped India and the world through her wideranging works of fiction and nonfiction. ...
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Scholarship and Integrity: Matthew Arnold's "the Scholar-Gipsy" and Anita Desai's "Scholar and Gypsy" (Critical Essay)
Alif: Journal of Comparative PoeticsThis article presents a comparative study of Matthew Arnold's 1854 poem "The ScholarGipsy" and Anita Desai's 1978 story "Scholm" and Gypsy". Arnold's poem contrasts the singleminde...
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Kingdom of Olives and Ash
Michael Chabon & Ayelet WaldmanPublished to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such nota...
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Becoming a Mountain
Stephen AlterHailed as a "wondrous book" by Gretel Ehrlich, and winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literaturea journey of healing that becomes a pilgrimage for the soul. Steph...
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Day of Reckoning
Nayantara SahgalEven before Indian writing in English became the fashionable thing it is today, Nayantara Sahgal was a name to reckon with internationally. In Day of Reckoning: Stories, her first ...
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The Guru and the Dictator
Thomas ShorIn this riveting true story, Thomas K. Shor, an American writer with an ear for unusual stories, wanders into a Sikkimese mountain village and into the life of an enigmatic spiritu...
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Daughters of Jorasanko
Aruna ChakravartiThe Tagore household is falling apart. Rabindranath cannot shake off the disquiet in his heart. His daughters and daughterinlaw struggle hard to cope with incompatible marriages, i...
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Prison and Chocolate Cake
Nayantara Sahgal'Seldom does one get a chance to become acquainted with India's great leaders through a young woman so intimately associated with them.'New York Times Book ReviewA dramatic portrai...
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Old Babes in the Wood
Margaret AtwoodThe new collection from the legendary Atwood is led by the story of a married couple as they travel the road together, the moments big and small that make up a long life of love a...
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The Sound of Waves
Kalki R. Krishnamurthy & Gowri RamnarayanA fractured country on the verge of freedom finds its people navigating the slippery crevices of love, morality and nationalism.To escape the despair of his allconsuming, failed re...
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Lesser Breeds
Nayantara SahgalIn 1932, Nurullah, a teacher aged twentythree, comes to the city of Akbarabad. He teaches literature to firstyears at the university and encounters a nonviolent resistance movement...
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Inner and Outer Rejections of a refugee: Anita Desai´s "Baumgartner´s Bombay`"
Ulrike LöbelIn her novel “Baumgartner’s Bombay’ Anita Desai confronts the reader with a protagonist whose life is a chain of happenings not intended, wished for or fought against by him. It se...
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A Study Guide for Anita Desai's "Studies in the Park"
The Gale GroupA study guide for Anita Desai's "Studies in the Park", excerpted from The Gale Group's acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students series. Designed with busy students i...
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Hurricanes in Perfect Power
Varios Artistas & Candice BrathwaiteA stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.'To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect...
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This Time Of Morning
Nayantara SahgalThis unusually prescient novel is set in the early postIndependence years, when a new republic eagerly looks forward to a future full of hope. Rakesh, a Foreign Service officer who...
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The Lives of Others
Neel MukherjeeShortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the Costa Novel AwardWinner of the Encore AwardShortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian LiteratureLonglisted for the IMPAC ...
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Maps
Nuruddin FarahWinner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. Maps is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in ...
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No Country for the Poor
Azad EssaFor millions of South Africans, Nelson Mandela's passing signalled the end of an era. Returning home to cover the story, journalist Azad Essa finds his countrymen looking a little ...
