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Desai, Anita, 1937-
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India -- Fiction.
India -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Desai, Anita, 1937-
India -- Fiction.
India -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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The
artist
of
disappearance
:
three
novellas
/ Anita Desai.
by
Desai, Anita, 1937-
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2011.
Call #:
FICTION DES
Subjects
India -- Fiction.
India -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780547577456
0547577451
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
156 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Museum of final journeys -- Translator translated --
Artist
of
disappearance
.
Summary:
"Written late in Anita Desai's illustrious career, these
three
novellas
ruminate on art and memory, illusion and disillusion, and the sharp divide between life's expectations and dreams and its realities. Set in India in the not too distant past, the stories' diverse surroundings and dramas frame universal themes, which illuminate the ways in which various aspects of the Indian culture can nourish or suffocate. All are served up with Desai's characteristic perspicuity, subtle humor and quiet, sensitive writing. Overwhelmed by their own lack of purpose, the men and women who populate these tales set out on unexpected journeys that present them with a fresh sense hope and opportunity. In "The Museum of Final Journeys," a bored and officious junior civil servant imagines he's about to discover a museum filled with priceless treasures; in "Translation," a middle-aged woman has the chance to translate an unknown writer and in the process, impress the woman she most admires; in "The
Artist
of
Disappearance
," a documentary film crew, looking to expose the ecological havoc of illegal mining and logging, stumbles upon an artistic creation of unspeakable beauty, hidden from the world by its creator, a local recluse. But these are not heroic characters, and when confronted with defining moments, they struggle against their circumstances, their passivity and the disappointments of their daily lives, like so many flies in a spider's web. An impeccable craftsman, Desai remains evenhanded, elegantly setting the stage for all attendant human frailties to play out."--Publisher.
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Novellas
.
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