Fire on the Mountain - Hardcover

Desai, Anita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006011066X ISBN 13: 9780060110666

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1977

Synopsis

Nanda Kaul, a woman remote in her self-imposed solitude among the Simla hills of India, her strange and silent great-granddaughter, and the broken old woman who is her only friend are touched in varying ways by the violence of living

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Review:

"Anita Desai's lyrical yet pointed prose powerfully draws the portrait of a woman who can never blossom into her own in such an arid social landscape." (World Literature Today)

About the Author:

Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her published works include adult novels, children's books and short stories. Clear Light of Day (1980) and In Custody (1984) were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and The Village by the Sea won the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction in 1982. Anita Desai is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London, of the American Academy 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. and divides her time between India, Boston, Massachusetts and Cambridge, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 006011066X
• ISBN 13: 9780060110666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 145