Fire On The Mountain: A rebellious novella on family, feminism and freedom from the Booker shortlisted author of Clear Light of Day
Jun 2011 · Random House
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Vivid and alive, this powerful novella about one woman's belated rebellion against the powers that be is Anita Desai at her finest.
Nanda Kaul retreats to a quiet house in the hills, determined to live out her days in solitude. But the arrival of her great-granddaughter disrupts the stillness she has carefully built, bringing with it memories she would rather leave behind. Fire on the Mountain is Anita Desai’s subtle, haunting novel of isolation and memory.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days.
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Vivid and alive, this powerful novella about one woman's belated rebellion against the powers that be is Anita Desai at her finest.
Nanda Kaul retreats to a quiet house in the hills, determined to live out her days in solitude. But the arrival of her great-granddaughter disrupts the stillness she...
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SIDDHANT RAO
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November 28, 2019
I randomly picked it up from my college library(i found the title appealing) & i wasn't aware about the writer then. Once i started reading it, i kept on going mainly bcz it is set in Kasoli (Himachal Pradesh) & it is one of the places that i really would like to go again sometime when it is not much visited by people. The book is worth reading, won't take much time. I liked the book and i look forward to reading another one from the author.
Ajay Vishwakarma
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February 7, 2023
The book is worth reading, and i liked the most that all the characters are set in India.
About the author
Born and educated in India, Anita Desai is the author of many novels and short stories, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody and Fasting, Feasting. She is the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Royal Society of Literature.
Born and educated in India, Anita Desai is the author of many novels and short stories, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody and Fasting, Feasting. She is the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts I...
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