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Anita Desai was born and educated in India. She has won numerous awards for her fiction and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London, of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York and of Girton College at the University of Cambridge. She teaches in the Writing Program at M.I.T.
""As finely written atmospheric pieces alone the stories would be memorable... As social documents they are absorbing. The volume's profound theme is the tension between convention and exploration, family solidarity and individualism... An admirable humane and responsible achievement"" -- Hermione Lee Observer ""One of the most brilliant and subtle writers ever to have described the meeting of eastern and western culture"" Alison Lurie ""Beautifully accomplished and memorable"" The Times ""Absolutely first-rate...absorbing"" -- Hermione Lee Observer ""Desai has a gift of opening up a closed world and making it clearly visible"" Sunday Times
