Anita Desai Fire On The Mountain

Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184003260

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Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai Pdf

Gone are the days when Nanda Kaul watched over her family and played the part of Vice-Chancellor’s wife. Leaving her children behind in the real world, the busier world, she has chosen to spend her last years alone in the mountains in Kasauli, in a secluded bungalow called Carignano. Until one summer her great-granddaughter Raka is dispatched to Kasauli – and everything changes. Nanda is at first dismayed at this break in her preciously acquired solitude. Fiercely taciturn, Raka is, like her, quite untamed. The girl prefers the company of apricot trees and animals to her great-grandmother’s, and spends her afternoons rambling over the mountainside. But the two are more alike than they know. Throughout the hot, long summer, Nanda’s old, hidden dependencies and wounds come to the surface, ending, inevitably, in tragedy. Marvellous yet restrained, Fire on the Mountain speaks of the past and its unshakable hold over the present.

Author : Rama Kundu
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8126904704

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Anita Desai, Fire on the Mountain by Rama Kundu Pdf

Anita Desai, A Recipient Of Many Literary Awards In India And Abroad, And A Creative Writing Teacher At Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Since 1993, In Addition To Being A Fellow Of The Royal Society Of Literature In London And Honorary Fellow Of The University Of Cambridge, Has Proved Herself To Be A Major Indian Novelist Of The Post-Seventies India, Whose Novels Epitomize The Emerging Women S Search For Self-Hood In The Indian Context.Fire On The Mountain (1977), Winner Of The 1978 National Academy Of Letters Award, And Generally Considered Desai S Masterpiece, Is A Beautiful Novel, Focused On Two Elderly Ladies And One Small Girl. Nanda Kaul Retires To A Hill Station House In Her Old Age, And Leads An Isolated Life There, When Her Great-Granddaughter Comes To Stay. With The Arrival Of Raka The Story Takes A New Turn, Gathers Momentum, And Unfurls Quickly To A Symbolic End When The Mountain Has Been Set On Fire.The Atlantic Critical Study Of Fire On The Mountain, Which Is Primarily Meant For The Students Of English Literature Of Indian Universities, Is A Comprehensive, Self-Sufficient And In-Depth Study Of The Text. The Author, A Distinguished Scholar In The Area, Has Taken Special Care To Combine Lucidity And Profundity In Her Treatment Of The Text. In Its Eight Chapters The Present Study Examines The Text From Various Angles Such As The Title, Themes, Characters, Images And Symbols, Narrative Technique, And Feminist Discourse, In Addition To Providing An Introduction , A Brief Story-Outline , And A Detailed Critical Summary Of The Entire Text In Its Three Parts, Along With A Select Bibliography And Sample Questions. The Book Will Be Immensely Useful For Students, Scholars And Teachers In The Area.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8177648993

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Fire On The Mountain By Anita Desai by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kajali Sharma
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8170172837

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Symbolism in Anita Desai's Novels by Kajali Sharma Pdf

Author : Manmohan Krishna Bhatnagar,Mittapalli Rajeshwar
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8171568998

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The Novels of Anita Desai by Manmohan Krishna Bhatnagar,Mittapalli Rajeshwar Pdf

Anita Desai S Work Represents A Unique Blending Of The Indian And The Western. Her Novels Catch The Bewilderment Of The Individual Psyche Confronted With The Overbearing Socio-Cultural Environment And The Ever-Beckoning Modern Promise Of Self-Gratification And Self-Fulfilment. In The Face Of This Dual Onslaught, Her Protagonists, Male Or Female Maya, Sita, Monisha And Amla; Sarah, Nanda And Raka; Bim And Tara; Devan, Baumgartner Are Seen Poised Rentalizingly At Different Junctures Of The Philosophic Spectrum.Applying Sociological, Psychoanalytic, Structural And Other Approaches Of Formal Textual Analysis, The Essays In The Present Anthology Take A Fresh Look At Established Works, Revealing Aspects Of Study Hitherto Unexplored, Offer Critically Insightful Probes Into Individual Novels And Explore The Deployment Of Images, Symbols And Other Poetic Devices, Besides Diverse Narrative Strategies.An Indispensable Source-Book For Students, Researchers And Teachers Of Indian English And Commonwealth Literature In General And Fiction And Anita Desai In Particular.An Insightful Companion For Research In Sociology And Women-Studies.

Author : DWIVEDI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9383868171

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Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain by DWIVEDI Pdf

Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141362847

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The Village by the Sea by Anita Desai Pdf

A story of survival set in a small fishing villlage near Bombay. Lila and Hari, aged 13 and 12, struggle to keep the family, including two young sisters, going when their mother is ill and their father usually the worse for drink. When Hari goes to Bombay to find work, Lila seems to be responsible for everything. Although the book paints a picture of extreme poverty, it demonstrates the strength of the family even in the most extreme circumstances and offers a powerful picture of another culture.

Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0618056807

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Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai Pdf

Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era is the story of the profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The book follows Hugo Baumgartner as he leaves behind Nazi Germany and his Jewish heritage for Calcutta, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war's end.

Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788122200539

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Voices in the City by Anita Desai Pdf

Based on the life of the middle class intellectuals of Calcutta, it is an unforgettable story of a Bohemian brother and his two sisters caught in the cross-currents of changing social values. In many ways the story reflects a vivid picture of India's social transition - a phase in which the older elements are not altogether dead, and the emergent ones not fully evolved.

Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184004090

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Journey to Ithaca by Anita Desai Pdf

Sophie and Matteo are young and in love, sharing a dissatisfaction with their bourgeois Italian upbringing. Naturally, like so many other young Westerners in the sixties and seventies, they go to India. But the realities of life in an ashram ignite their differences; Sophie wants to be a tourist and go to Goa and eat shrimp, which Matteo scorns, seeking the ‘real’ India. Pragmatic Sophie is disillusioned by the hardships they encounter, while her husband, who yearns for spiritual fulfillment, sees only the purity of ascetic life, leading him to Mother, a charismatic guru. Trying to reclaim an ailing Matteo, Sophie embarks on a new journey in search for a different truth; that of Mother’s mysterious past. Soon, she finds that the immortal has a history of her own; born in Cairo, she was once Laila, a dancer who toured the world before coming to Bombay to search for ‘divine love’. What each of the three people discover, on their individual quests, is at its heart that ancient truth: that wisdom is found in the journey itself. A stirring, profound exploration of emotional exile, of sacred and profane loves, Journey to Ithaca is a masterful novel.

Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Random House
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448104550

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Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1999 BOOKER PRIZE Uma, the plain, spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions, unlike her ambitious younger sister Aruna, who brings off a 'good' marriage, and brother Arun, the disappointing son and heir who is studying in America. Across the world in Massachusetts, life with the Patton family is bewildering for Arun in the alien culture of freedom, freezers and paradoxically self-denying self-indulgence.

Author : Jeannette Haien
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061978135

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The All of It by Jeannette Haien Pdf

“A quiet little stunner, written with the sure hand of an artist and the ear of a seasoned storyteller.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jeannette Haien’s award-winning first novel relates the seemingly simple tale of a parishioner confiding in her priest, but the tangled confession brings secrets to light that provoke a moral quandary for not only the clergyman, but the reader as well. Perfect for fans of Claire Keegan. While fishing in an Irish salmon stream one rainy morning, Father Declan de Loughry ponders the recent deathbed confession of his parishioner Kevin Dennehy. It seems Dennehy and his wife, Enda, had been quietly living a lie for fifty years. Yet the gravity of their deception doesn’t become clear to the good father until Enda shares the full tale of her suffering, finally confiding “the all of it.” Haien’s intimate novel of conversations and dilemmas—perfect for readers of Paul Harding’s Tinkers, Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, and Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood—is “an elegantly written, compact and often subtle tale of morality and passion that gives voice to an age-old concern in a fresh way” hails the New York Times Book Review. This special edition includes an introduction by Ann Patchett.

Author : Jaydipsinh Dodiya
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8176251585

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Critical Essays on Anita Desai's Fiction by Jaydipsinh Dodiya Pdf

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Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788122207057

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Bye-Bye Blackbird by Anita Desai Pdf

Written in vivid narrative and chiselled prose, Bye-Bye Blackbird explores the lives of the outsiders seeking to forge a new identity in an alien society. Set against England's green and grisly landscape, enigmatic and attractive to some, depressing and nauseating to others, it is a story of everyday heroism against subtle oppression, crumbling traditions and homesickness. 'Characters grow with life, the scenes are delicately painted and the nuances of changing mood skilfully transmitted.' — Hindu 'More than a novel, it is a psychological study of the love-hate relationship the immigrants have towards their country of adoption.' — Indian Express

Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547577456

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The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai Pdf

Award-winning novelist Anita Desai explores time and transformation in these three artful novellas