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The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas make up Anita Desai's exquisite new book. Set in modern India, but where history still casts a long shadow, the stories move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the past, and to characters who are, each in their own way, masters of self-effacement. Ri ...Show more
The Artist of Disappearance (HB) by Anita Desai
39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas makes up Anita Desai's exquisite new book. Set in modern India, but where history still casts a long shadow, the stories move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the past, and to characters who are, each in their own way, masters of self-effacement. I ...Show more
The Village by the Sea by Anita Desai
21.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
This is 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 responsib ...Show more
The Zigzag Way by Anita Desai
26.95 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: Fiction
Eric is a youngish man, self-conscious, awkward, a buttoned-down North American, a would-be writer, and a traveller in spite of himself. Susceptible to bossy women, he finds himself in the wake of one in Mexico, where he is overwhelmed at first with sensory overload, but is gradually seduced - by the st ...Show more
Village by the Sea by Anita Desai
14.95 NZD
25.00 (40% off)
Category: Travel
With their mother ill and their father permanently drunk, Hara and Lila have to earn the money to keep house and look after their two young sisters. In desperation, Hari runs away to Bombay, leaving Lila to cope alone.
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