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The artist of disappearance : three novellas / Anita Desai.
- Description: 156 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
- ISBN: 9780547577456 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0547577451 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780547840123 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0547840128 (pbk.)
Available copies
- 13 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).
Current holds
0 current holds with 13 total copies.
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| Beverly Farms | Adult Fiction | Fiction/ Desai (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Beverly Main | Adult Fiction | Fiction/ Desai (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Danvers | Adult Fiction | Fic / Desai (Text to phone) | Available | - |
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| Gloucester | Adult Fiction | FICTION/Desai (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Lynn | Adult Fiction | Fic/Desai (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Middlesex - Lowell Campus | Best Sellers | B&T PR9499.3.D465 A88 2011 [MCC only] (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Peabody Main | Adult Fiction | Fiction/ Desai (Text to phone) | Available | - |
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| Contents: | The museum of final journeys -- Translator translated -- The artist of disappearance. |
| Summary: | "Written late in Anita Desai's illustrious career, these three novellas ruminate on art and memory, illusion and disillusion, and the sharp divide between life's expectations and dreams and its realities. Set in India in the not too distant past, the stories' diverse surroundings and dramas frame universal themes, which illuminate the ways in which various aspects of the Indian culture can nourish or suffocate. All are served up with Desai's characteristic perspicuity, subtle humor and quiet, sensitive writing. Overwhelmed by their own lack of purpose, the men and women who populate these tales set out on unexpected journeys that present them with a fresh sense hope and opportunity. In "The Museum of Final Journeys," a bored and officious junior civil servant imagines he's about to discover a museum filled with priceless treasures; in "Translation," a middle-aged woman has the chance to translate an unknown writer and in the process, impress the woman she most admires; in "The Artist of Disappearance," a documentary film crew, looking to expose the ecological havoc of illegal mining and logging, stumbles upon an artistic creation of unspeakable beauty, hidden from the world by its creator, a local recluse. But these are not heroic characters, and when confronted with defining moments, they struggle against their circumstances, their passivity and the disappointments of their daily lives, like so many flies in a spider's web. An impeccable craftsman, Desai remains evenhanded, elegantly setting the stage for all attendant human frailties to play out." -- |
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| Subject: |
India >
Fiction. India > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction. |
| Genre: |
Short stories. |
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