Fire on the Mountain

Informationen zum Autor Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her published works include novels, children's books and short stories. Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting Feasting (1999) were all 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 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 and divides her time between India, Boston, Massachusetts and Cambridge, England. In Custody was recently filmed by Merchant Ivory Productions. Klappentext Nanda Kaul is old. It is an intrusion Nanda Kaul deeply resents, but this child has a capacity to change things. Through the long hot summer months hidden dependencies and old wounds are uncovered, until tragedy seems as inevitable as a forest fire on the hillsides surrounding the villa. Zusammenfassung Nanda Kaul is old. It is an intrusion Nanda Kaul deeply resents, but this child has a capacity to change things. Through the long hot summer months hidden dependencies and old wounds are uncovered, until tragedy seems as inevitable as a forest fire on the hillsides surrounding the villa.

Product details

• Authors: Anita Desai, Desai Anita
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.04.2001
• EAN: 9780099428480
• ISBN: 978-0-09-942848-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, India, Family life fiction, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary