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Mariner Books
September 2000
On Sale: September 12, 2000
192 pages
ISBN: 0618074511
EAN: 9780618074518
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Set in India's Old Delhi, CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY is Anita
Desai's tender, warm, and compassionate novel about family
scars, the ability to forgive and forget, and the trials and
tribulations of familial love. At the novel's heart are the
moving relationships between the members of the Das family,
who have grown apart from each other. 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, estranged 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 and blend into a
domestic drama that is intensely beautiful and leads to
profound self-understanding.
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