{ August 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 183 pages Published 1980 Mariner Books (2000) Set in India's Old Delhi, CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY is Anita
Clear Light of Day
โ Scribed by Anita Desai
- Book ID
- 115221246
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 421 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780618074518
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โฆ Synopsis
**Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: A "rich, Chekhovian novel" about family and forgiveness from the acclaimed author of Fire on the Mountain(_The _ New Yorker). **
At the heart of this "wonderful" novel are the moving relationships between the estranged members of the Das family (_The _ Washington Post Book World). Bimla is a dissatisfied but ambitious teacher at a women's college who lives in her childhood home, where she cares for her mentally challenged brother, Baba. Tara is her younger, unambitious sister, married and with children of her own. Raja is their popular, brilliant, and successful brother. When Tara returns for a visit with Bimla and Baba, old memories and tensions resurface, blending into a domestic drama that leads to beautiful and profound moments of self-understanding.
Set in the vividly portrayed environs of Old Delhi, "_Clear Light of...
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