Games At Twilight

An interesting book of 11 short storiess. The characters are king here and i was amazed several times over about the reaction i had to reading the stories- they're so short, but they're all so well written that each one has effected me in different ways. Extraordinarily well written, very clear, very intelligent.Recommend to anyone.

Anita Desai’s short stories reflect the kaleidoscope of modern Indian life. They are set in contemporary Bombay and other cities and they evoke the colours, sounds, smells and white-hot heat of Indian cities. The stories are peopled with intensely individual characters: there is a painter living in a slum who fills his paintings with landscapes, birds and flowers he has never seen. There is an American woman who turns to the hippies in the Indian hills because she is unhappy with her life in the verdant countryside of Vermont. There is a man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon. And many more. It is a finely written, atmospheric, memorable collection of short stories. As always with Anita Desai, her work is warm, perceptive, both funny and touched with sadness.

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I loved the book for its detailing. Anita is a master storyteller and this book proved that.The stories are about human foibles and the delicate emotions in testing times.Grab it if you don't mind a few unpleasant ones in this extraordinary collection.

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