| Format | Availability Status | Price |
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| Paperback | In stock |
295.00 $ 4.57 |
Imprint: Orient Paperbacks
Publication Date: 01 Dec, 1980
Pages Count: 184 Pages
Weight: 190.00 Grams
Dimensions: 5.00 x 8.00 Inches
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About the Book:
Cry, the Peacock is the story of a young girl, Maya, obsessed by a childhood prophecy of disaster. The author builds up an atmosphere of tension as torrid and oppressive as a stiffling Indian summer, both in the crowded, colourful cities and the strangely beautiful countryside.
Anita Desai creates a stained glass landscape with details of images, colours and odours...Cry, The Peacock is the product of a mellowed craftswoman.
Maya's extreme sensitivity never alienates the reader because it is rendered in terms of measurable human loneliness...How well Desai does in the business of carrying her narrative through to a satisfactory, even explosive end.
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.