| Format | Availability Status | Price |
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| Paperback | In stock |
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Imprint: Orient Paperbacks
Publication Date: 04 Sep, 2006
Pages Count: 224 Pages
Weight: 200.00 Grams
Dimensions: 5.00 x 8.00 Inches
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About the Book:
Set against England's green and grisly landscape, enigmatic and attractive to some, depressing and nauseating to others, Bye-Bye Blackbird explores the lives of the outsiders seeking to forge a new identity in an alien society.
Characters glow with life, the scenes are delicately painted and the nuances of changing mood skilfully transmitted.
More than a novel, it is a psychological study of the love-hate relationship the immigrants have towards their country of adoption.
Readers will find Desai's eye for delicacy and detail and her skills at characterization rewarding.
Anita Mazumdar Desai (born 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and the Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was born in Mussoorie, India.
She was a student at Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School, Delhi and received her B.A. in English literature in 1957 from the University of Delhi. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.