The Complete Stories
  • Published: 20 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784706647
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $32.99

The Complete Stories

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The complete short fiction by the three-times Booker shortlisted author, gathered together in a single volume for the first time

The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author. From the icy suburbs of Canada to the overcrowded B&Bs of Cornwall, via the hill towns and cities of India, Anita Desai observes human behaviour unflinchingly but not unkindly, recognising our ordinariness and our strangeness, and capturing both with quiet precision.
  • Published: 20 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784706647
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Anita Desai

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.

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Also by Anita Desai

The Artist of Disappearance
The Zigzag Way
The Village by the Sea
Clear Light of Day
Diamond Dust & Other Stories
Fasting, Feasting
In Custody
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Praise for The Complete Stories

Anita Desai is one of the greats of the modern short story ... The whole collection breathes old-style quality

Phil Baker, The Sunday Times

To compare Anita Desai's fiction with that of Chekhov or the short stories of Tolstoy is not extravagant; it is entirely warranted

Irish Times

All her stories are full of a confidence in human nature that is a rarity and a pleasure to encounter

Spectator

Anita Desai is one of the most brilliant and subtle writers ever to have described the meeting of eastern and western culture

Alison Lurie