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A little boy grows up in the hills of Mussorie, benignly neglected by his glamourous parents. As he grows older, he finds it impossible to make a life for himself in the city and returns to his childhood home, empty of all occupants apart from his mother’s aged English companion. There a tragedy makes an unexpected artist of him.
A lonely college lecturer discovers a great Oriya writer and secures a publishing deal to translate her novel. Heady with the joy of this small success, she finds herself blurring the line between translator and writer.
Haunting, mysterious, written with an almost fable-like intensity, The Artist of Disappearance is another superb offering from one of India’s great novelists.
About the Author
Anita Desai is one of India’s foremost writers. She has written sixteen works of fiction, including Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984), and Fasting, Feasting (1999), all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In Custody was made into a film by Merchant Ivory productions, starring Shashi Kapoor and Om Puri. Her most recent novel is The Zig Zag Way (2004).
A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London, the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, Girton College and Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge, and most recently the Sahitya Akademi in India, Anita Desai has also been a Professor of Writing at MIT and has frequently been honoured with awards among them the Alberto Moravia Prize for Literature and the Padma Shri.
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