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Where Shall We Go This Summer
Author: Anita Desai
ISBN: 9788122200881
Binding: Paper Back
Publishing Year: 1982
Publisher: Orient Paperbacks
Number of Pages: 160
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Where Shall We Go This Summer is an intense story of a sensitive young wife torn between the desire to abandon the boredom and hypocrisy of her middle class and ostensibly comfortable existance, and the realisation that the bonds that tie her to it cannot easily be broken.
About Author
Anita Desai, an Indian novelist and short story writer, is especially noted for her sensitive portrayal of the inner life of her female characters. Desai made her debut in 1963 with Cry, The Peacock. She has been a member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delhi and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Desai has taught at Girton College and Smith College in England, and at Mount Holyoke College in the United States. In 1993 she became a creative writing teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Desai is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. She received the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction for her novel The Village by the Sea (1982) and the 1978 National Academy of Letters Award for Fire on the Mountain. She has won the International Prize - Una Vita per la letterature (a life for literature) for her body of works under the Italian Grinzane Cavour awards.
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