- Fiction, Family life, Social life and customs, Young adult fiction
When their family falls on hard times, thirteen-year-old Lila and her twelve-year-old brother, Hari, try desperately to keep their home intact--an almost impossible task until Hari gets a chance to go to Bombay and returns with some positive plans for the future.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Anita Desai
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 157
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Heinemann, Puffin Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780745106557
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Anita Mazumdar Desai was born in 1937.
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