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Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her published works include many award-winning short story collections and novels, three of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, most recently Fasting, Feasting. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and lives in New York State.
A beautiful book of epic scope... Anita Desai has surpassed her own previous high standards * Literary Review * Full of revelations and pleasures * Independent on Sunday * She writes an extraordinarily delicate, lucid English... She is a writer's writer in that anyone who has ever set pen to paper must ask himself just what it is about the writing that makes it so memorable -- Victoria Glendinning * Times Literary Supplement * Superbly powerful... A rich, evocative book * Spectator *
