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Clear Light of Day: A Novel
by Anita Desai (Author) Format: Kindle Edition★★★★★
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Customers find the book engaging and praise its excellent dramatization of family relationships across time.
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: A “rich, Chekhovian novel” about family and forgiveness from the acclaimed author of Fire on the Mountain (The New Yorker). At the heart of this “wonderful” novel are the moving relationships between the estranged members of the Das family (The Washington Post Book World). Bimla is a dissatisfied but ambitious teacher at a women’s college who lives in her childhood home, where she cares for her mentally challenged brother, Baba. Tara is her younger, unambitious sister, married and with children of her own. Raja is their popular, brilliant, and successful brother. When Tara returns for a visit with Bimla and Baba, old memories and tensions resurface, blending into a domestic drama that leads to beautiful and profound moments of self-understanding. Set in the vividly portrayed environs of Old Delhi, “Clear Light of Day does what only the very best novels can do: it totally submerges us. It also takes us so deeply into another world that we almost fear we won’t be able to climb out again” (The New York Times Book Review). “Passages must be read and reread so that you savor their imagery, their language, and their wisdom.” —The Washington Post Book World “[A] thoroughly universal tale of unhealable family hurts . . . Distinctively shaded with enticing glimpses of India’s Hindu middle-class in shabby decline.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Read more
Product Information
ASIN | B00K4JW2TO |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Accessibility | Learn more |
Publication date | May 13, 2014 |
Edition | Reprint |
Language | English |
File size | 1.9 MB |
Screen Reader | Supported |
Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
X-Ray | Not Enabled |
Word Wise | Enabled |
Print length | 274 pages |
ISBN-13 | 978-0547526294 |
Page Flip | Enabled |
Reading age | 14 years and up |
Best Sellers Rank | #111,100 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #227 in Sibling Fiction #1,050 in Contemporary Literary Fiction #1,844 in Family Life Fiction (Books) |
Customer Reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 622 ratings |