- Young women, East Indian students, Brothers and sisters, Fiction
Uma, the older daughter of an Indian family, lives in relative poverty with her parents, while her younger brother Arun lives in America; both tending to their demanding parents.
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Earnest, classical in form, contemporary and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Anita Desai
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 227
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Vintage, Chatto & Windus
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780754042402
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About Anita Desai · 1937
Anita Mazumdar Desai was born in 1937.
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