61. The Delhi Walla: Culture – Anita Desai In Town anita desai was in town to discuss her work with fellow novelist Rana Dasgupta. The event, organized by Random House India, unrolled in the usual pleasant http://thedelhiwalla.blogspot.com/2007/12/culture-anita-desai-in-town.html

skip to main skip to sidebar The Delhi Walla The City of Tombs, Trees, Arundhati Roy...And Other Artists Monday, December 03, 2007 GO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIES Contact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries. The venerable novelist visits her old city. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi. The pictures cannot be reproduced anywhere without his permission.] No doubt it was a special occasion. A rare public sighting of Ms. Desai. With her gentle voice, tender features, and silver-white hair, she seemed to belong to a time and place very different from ours. Born 70 years ago in Mussoorie, Anita Mazumdar Desai grew up speaking neither English nor Hindi as her first language. It was German. Her mother was from Germany and her father was a Bengali businessman. Later, Ms. Desai went on to establish a deep bond with Delhi. It was here that she spent her college years getting a degree in English Literature from Miranda House. It was here that she chose to set up a house in the initial years of her marriage. It was here that her novelist daughter, Kiran, was born. She now spends her time in US. Heat and Dust . But, Ms. Desai did it differently. Among her fine works, the one which

62. BBC NEWS | Programmes | Hardtalk | Anita Desai -- A Life In Literature anita desai to Gavin Esler about her long career in literature and how Indian writing has come of age. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/4196231.stm

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64. Anita Desai--A Critical Biography anita desai was born in 1935 in Delhi to a German mother and a Bengali father. She grew up speaking German at home and Bengali, Urdu, Hindi and English at http://www.haverford.edu/engl/engl277b/Contexts/anita_desai.htm

Elizabeth Ostberg February 12, 2000. Notes on the Biography of Anita Desai Anita Desai was born in 1935 in Delhi to a German mother and a Bengali father. She grew up speaking German at home and Bengali, Urdu, Hindi and English at school and in the city streets. She has said that she grew up surrounded by Western literature and music, not realizing until she was older that this was an anomaly in her world where she also learned the Eastern culture and customs. She married a businessman at twenty-one and raised several children before becoming known for her writing. Her first book, Cry,the Peacock was published in England in 1963, and her better known novels include In Custody (1984) and Baumgartner's Bombay (1988). She once wrote: "I see India through my mother's eyes, as an outsider, but my feelings for India are my father's, of someone born here" (Griffiths). She never considered trying to first publish in India because there was no publisher in India who would be interested in fiction by an Indian writer (Jussawalla) and it was first in England that her work became noticed. U.S. readers were slower to discover her, due, she believes to England's natural interest in India and the U.S.'s lack of comprehension regarding the foreignness of her subject. But Desai only writes in English. This, she has repeatedly said,was a natural and unconscious choice for her: "I can state definitely that I did not choose English in a deliberate and conscious act and I'd say perhaps it was the language that chose me and I started writing stories in English at the age of seven, and have been doing so for thirty years now without stopping to think why "(Desai).

65. New Statesman - Another Country. Anita Desai's New Novel Contains Many Fine Desc The Zigzag Way anita desai Chatto Windus, 182pp, 12.99 ISBN 0701177438. http://www.newstatesman.com/200409060044

@import url(http://www.newstatesman.com/style/main.css); Contact us About New Statesman Advertising Sponsorship ... Login Registered user login: Email Password Only have a subscriber code? Forgotten password? Return to: Home Another country. Anita Desai's new novel contains many fine descriptions of nature, but the characters are of a ghostly thinness, writes Claire Messud Claire Messud Published 06 September 2004 Print version Listen RSS The Zigzag Way Anita Desai ISBN 0701177438 Anita Desai is justifiably renowned for her keen, subtle eye and her calmly elegant prose. She is also a mistress of synecdoche, a writer whose delicate portraits of the quotidian resonate outwards to convey tumultuous swathes of history. Although the characters in Clear Light of Day (1980) barely venture beyond their front gate, they live out the legacy of India's bitter battle for independence. Hers is a miniaturist's gift, precise, deft and powerful. In The Zigzag Way , Desai turns her eye to a new continent. Set in Mexico, the novel weaves together the travels of a young American named Eric, an aged Austrian eccentric named Dona Vera, and a long-dead Cornish miner's wife, Betty Jennings. Through them, Desai sets out to depict the upheavals of 20th-century Mexico, primarily relating to the gold and silver mines in the Sierra Madre. We are introduced to the ongoing plight of the indigenous Huichols; to the difficult lives of the British miners, stranded far from home in the early part of the century; and to the effect, during that time, of Pancho Villa's revolution.

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67. Gale - E-Docs - Anita Desai S Studies In The Park A Study Guide anita desai s Studies in the Park A Study Guide from Gale s Literature of Developing Nations for Students (Volume 02, Chapter 19) http://prp.contentdirections.com/mr/gale_edoc.jsp?doi=10.1223/GALFSLDNFS00045

68. WaterBridge Review :: Book Review :: The Zig Zag Way By Anita Desai A review of the book The Zigzag Way by anita desai, published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston. http://www.waterbridgereview.org/012005/rvw_zigzag_way.php

home conversations reviews around the rim ... side trips Book Reviews The Zigzag Way by Anita Desai Houghton Mifflin, Boston In her long career in fiction, Anita Desai has won well-deserved praise for her elegant, evocative prose and for the keen intelligence with which she explores culture and character. In her fourteenth novel, the half-Bengali, half-German Desai, who has often focused on India and on Indians living elsewhere, turns to another land: Mexico. In The Zigzag Way , she illuminates that country's vistas and history, and the intertwined lives of three very different foreigners who venture there, with characteristic grace, skill, and insight. We first meet Eric, an aimless American graduate student struggling to expand his thesis on immigration into a book. He follows his more disciplined and competent scientist girlfriend on a research trip to Mexico. Eric fortuitously becomes aware that his Cornish grandfather once worked in the mines of Mexico and sets out to learn more. That journey brings him to a near-deserted mining town, just before the Day of the Dead. We are then returned to the past, where we meet Eric's grandmother, Betty Jennings, a plucky, appealing young woman who travels to Mexico in 1910 to marry a Cornish miner. Soon Betty's intriguing life in Mexico is thrown into turmoil by the outbreak of revolution and ends abruptly in childbirth. The book's magical, haunting final section follows Eric on the Day of the Dead as he seeks Betty's grave and encounters both past and present.

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70. Feminista! V3n7 - Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting anita desai, the author of the upcoming novel Fasting, Feasting (now available in the UK) is an Indian, writing in English, living in the U.S. I wondered, http://www.feminista.com/archives/v3n7/chandra.html

According to K.K.Ruthven, the central hypothesis of feminist literary criticism is that "gender is a crucial determinant in the production, circulation and consumption of literary discourse"(Feminist literary studies: 1991,9). But within this school two schools have emerged - those who analyze writings by male authors to see how women characters are portrayed and those who analyze women writers themselves (sometimes called the gynocritics). Elaine Showalter lucidly defines this term as a concern with "women as writers . . . the history, styles, themes, genres, and structures of writing by women; the psychodynamics of female creativity; the trajectory of the individual or collective female career; and the evolution and laws of a female literary tradition"('Feminist criticism in the wilderness' Critical inquiry: 1981,184-185). Anita Desai, the author of the upcoming novel Fasting, Feasting (now available in the UK) is an Indian, writing in English, living in the U.S. I wondered, what kind of style or theme or structure does this kind of background produce? How does this affect her creativity? What literary tradition does this writer fall back on? Or does she find her own? Fasting, Feasting

71. Anita Desai - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA) Find information on anita desai, including popular titles and books by anita desai. Read more with Penguin Group (USA) http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000009147,00.html

SYM=GetSymbol('BIO'); my cart home authors books ... Books by Anita Desai Anita Desai Anita Desai was born in 1937; her father was Bengali and her mother German, and she was educated in Delhi. Her publihsed work includes Clear Light of Day , which was shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize, Fire on the Mountain , for which she won the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and the 1978 National Academy of Letters Award, In Custody , which was shortlisted for the 1984 Booker Prize, a volume of short stories, Games at Twilight , and Baumgartner's Bombay , all of which are publihsed in Penguin. She has also written several books for children. She is a member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delhi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. She was awarded the Neil Gunn International Fellowship for 1994. Anita Desai is married, has four children, and lives in India. Email Alerts To keep up-to-date, input your email address, and we will contact you on publication Please alert me via email when: The author releases another book Send this page to a friend About Penguin Group USA Site Map Help ... Penguin Worldwide The Complete Jane Austen Masterpiece Theatre Don't miss our multi-media feature on Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them in our Parenting special interest area.

72. Themes - New Writing Anthology However, in the hands of Moniza Alvi, anita desai and Karen McCarthy, anita desai was born and educated in India. She is the author of several novels, http://newwriting.britishcouncil.org/all/themes/?theme=49

73. Studies In The Park Study Guide By Anita Desai Studies in the Park study guide, including 42 pages of chapter summaries, essays, quotes, and more. http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-studiespark/

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75. Anita Desai: Old Ghosts In The New World - Features, Books - Independent.co.uk anita desai has forsaken India to write a novel about Mexico. She explains to Rhiannon Batten why she feels at home in another ancient and colourful land http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/features/article30406.ece

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76. YouTube - Anita Desai At Ubud anita desai reads from Feasting, Fasting (more). Added October 14, 2006. anita desai reads from Feasting, Fasting (less). Added October 14, 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m_5MiYbENg

77. In Custody By Anita Desai Detailed Book Review In Custody anita desai Book Review anita desai Message Board anita desai Resident Scholar Profiles TOP SCHOLAR http://www.allreaders.com/Topics/info_30945.asp

In Custody Anita Desai Book Review Read a book review online (click here to search reviews) Books Movies Sci-Fi/Fantasy ... Get more information about this book Plot Summary of In Custody "This is a novel about a small-town man, Deven, who gets the opportunity to go interview his hero, the great poet Nur, the greatest living Urdu poet. Having always loved Urdu poetry and missed the chance to be an Urdu language professor, he is charmed into going to Delhi the big city. Even though he shrinks at the idea of possibly being exploited by his sharp and selfish friend Murad, the dream of meeting Nur draws him on. So he sets off on a number of adventures on Sundays, the one free day that he should have spent with his wife and son. What Deven finds at his hero's house is misery and confusion. Having sunk into a senile old age, surrounded by fawning sycophants, married to a younger calculating wife who wants to use his glory to win herself fame, Nur is not what he once was. Or perhaps he always was this. Deven, a shrinking and weak man, is somehow drawn to this old poet, wishing to help and protect him even as he cannot defend himself. Perhaps it is the tie of Urdu poetry that he remembers from his treasured times as a child with his father.

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79. Anita Desai’s Classics Relaunch: In Custody, Baumgartner’s Bombay, C Relaunch of author anita desai s classics (plus see below for a special movie premiere ticket giveaway for Trendy readers) http://www.trendy.in/2007/11/30/anita-and-three/

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