Anita Desai's 'The Fire on the Mountain' (Roman Critical Context) - Hardcover

Dwivedi, A. N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9380905769 ISBN 13: 9789380905761

Publisher: UNKNO, 2017

Synopsis

ROMAN Critical Context brings together the very best of contemporary critical thinking and a selection of earlier commentaries. This collection of critical essays on Anita Desai’s The Fire on the Mountain provides in-depth intellectual and critical analysis of the text from a broad scholarly perspective. By examining different issues surrounding the illusive, enigmatic and often controversial topics related to The Fire on the Mountain this anthology acts like an indispensable companion to the readers.

About this title

About the Author:

Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her published works include novels, children's books and short stories. Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting Feasting (1999) were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and The Village by the Sea won the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction in 1982. Anita Desai is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London, of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York and of Girton College at the University of Cambridge. She teaches in the Writing Program at M.I.T and divides her time between India, Boston, Massachusetts and Cambridge, England. In Custody was recently filmed by Merchant Ivory Productions.

About this edition

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 9380905769
• ISBN 13: 9789380905761
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 199