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A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas make up Anita Desai''s exquisite new book. Set in modern India, but where history still casts a long shadow, the stories move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the past, and to characters who are, each in their own way, masters of self-effacement.

Rich and evocative, remarkable in their clarity and sensuous in their telling, these stories remind us of the extraordinary yet delicate power of this pre-eminent writer.



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Profoundly elegiac -- Margaret Drabble * New Statesman *
From a web of connections, Desai spins stories of history and loss that move the reader not with epiphanies, but through the sheer beauty of her storytelling * Time Out *
Elegantly paced and smartly crafted -- Fatima Bhutto * Financial Times *
Anita Desai writes exquisitely -- Allan Massie * Scotsman *
Bewitchingly beautiful * The Times *

The Artist of Disappearance

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 8/2/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780099553953, 978-0099553953
      ISBN10: 0099553953
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas make up Anita Desai''s exquisite new book. Set in modern India, but where history still casts a long shadow, the stories move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the past, and to characters who are, each in their own way, masters of self-effacement.

      Rich and evocative, remarkable in their clarity and sensuous in their telling, these stories remind us of the extraordinary yet delicate power of this pre-eminent writer.



      Trade Review
      Profoundly elegiac -- Margaret Drabble * New Statesman *
      From a web of connections, Desai spins stories of history and loss that move the reader not with epiphanies, but through the sheer beauty of her storytelling * Time Out *
      Elegantly paced and smartly crafted -- Fatima Bhutto * Financial Times *
      Anita Desai writes exquisitely -- Allan Massie * Scotsman *
      Bewitchingly beautiful * The Times *

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