Anita Desai's 'The Fire on the Mountain' (ROMAN Critical Context) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9380905769 ISBN 13: 9789380905761

Publisher: Roman Books, 2014

Synopsis

ROMAN Critical Context brings together the very best of contemporary critical thinking and a selection of earlier commentaries. This collection of critical essays on Anita Desai s The Fire on the Mountain provides in-depth intellectual and critical analysis of the text from a broad scholarly perspective. By examining different issues surrounding the illusive, enigmatic and often controversial topics related to The Fire on the Mountain this anthology acts like an indispensable companion to the readers."

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: Roman Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9380905769
• ISBN 13: 9789380905761
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 100
• Editor: Dwivedi AN