Fire On the Mountain - Softcover

Desai, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014011906X ISBN 13: 9780140119060

Publisher: Penguin, 1989

Synopsis

Nanda Kul is old. She has chosen to spend her last years high in the mountains, but her solitude is broken with the arrival of her great-granddaughter, Raka. Through the long hot summer, hidden dependencies and old wounds are uncovered, until tragedy becomes inevitable. From the author of CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY and IN CUSTODY.

About this title

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: Penguin
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 014011906X
• ISBN 13: 9780140119060
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160