Anita Desai ist eine gefeierte indische Romanautorin, deren Werke sich mit der psychologischen Landschaft menschlicher Erfahrungen auseinandersetzen. Ihre Prosa zeichnet sich durch feine Beobachtung und scharfen Einblick in die Emotionen und das Innenleben ihrer Charaktere aus. Desai erforscht meisterhaft Themen wie Entfremdung, die Suche nach Identität und die komplexen Beziehungen, die unser Leben prägen. Ihr Stil, sowohl poetisch als auch eindringlich, bietet den Lesern eine tiefgründige und zum Nachdenken anregende literarische Reise.
An einem heißen Sommertag besucht Tara, die seit vielen Jahren in Washington lebt, ihr Elternhaus in Neu-Delhi. Im Gespräch mit der älteren Schwester Bim, die nie von zu Hause weggegangen ist, wird die Vergangenheit wieder lebendig. Was Tara abstößt, die Unveränderlichkeit im Hause der längst verstorbenen Eltern, ist für die Schwester eine Beruhigung. Zwei Welten stoßen aufeinander. 'Ein reicher Roman von einer der begabtesten indischen Autorinnen der Gegenwart.' (The New Yorker.)
Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city. schovat popis
Anita Desai is one of the greats of the modern short story ... The whole collection breathes old-style quality Phil Baker The Sunday Times
Forgotten by the evolution of the centuries and indifferent to the advances of the twentieth century, Thul, a tiny fishing village not far from Bombay, continues to follow those rhythms of the seasons that have always been handed down. Hari and Lila were born and raised in the village, but now their family is falling into despair: the father to alcohol while the mother is seriously ill. As for money, that there is not even enough to meet the most basic needs between.
Eric is an uncertain, awkward young man, a would-be writer, and a traveller in spite of himself. Happy to follow his more confident girlfriend to Mexico, he is overwhelmed with sensory overload, but gradually seduced - by the strangeness, the colour, the mysteries of an older world. He finds himself on a curious quest for his own family in a 'ghost' mining town, now barely inhabited, where almost a hundred years earlier young Cornish miners worked the rich seams in the earth. On the D-a de los Muertos, the feast day when the locals celebrate and remember their dead, the various strands of the novel come together hauntingly, bringing together past and present in a moment of quiet, powerful epiphany.
He believes he finds it at the feet of 'the Mother', but down-to-earth Sophie, who accompanies him, does not find her inspiring so much as mysterious, and decides to trace the Mother's own story - from her travels with an Indian dance troupe in Paris, Venice and New York, to her search for divine love in India. schovat popis