Clear Light of Day
ANITA DESAI
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| Book Description |
| 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. |
| Other Award Winning Books by Anita Desai |
| Major Prize* Nominations |
4 |
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| Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* |
4 |
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| Pulitzer Prize Wins |
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| Pulitzer Prize Nominations |
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| National Book Critics Circle Award Wins |
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| National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations |
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| National Book Award Wins |
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| National Book Award Nominations |
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| Man Booker Prize Wins |
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| Man Booker Prize Nominations |
3 |
Clear Light of Day · Fasting, Feasting · In Custody · |
| PEN/Faulkner Award Wins |
0 |
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| PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations |
1 |
The Artist of Disappearance · |
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*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award
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15 reviews (1980) (192p)
33 reviews (1999) (228p)
