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Imprint: Orient Paperbacks
Publication Date: 09 May, 2005
Pages Count: 256 Pages
Weight: 250.00 Grams
Dimensions: 5.00 x 8.00 Inches
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About the Book:
Voices in the City is based on the life of the middle class intellectuals of Calcutta. It is an unforgettable story of a Bohemian brother and his two sisters caught in the crosscurrents of changing social values. In many ways the story reflects a vivid picture of India's social transition - a phase in which the older elements are not altogether dead, and the emergent ones not fully evolved. The novel describes the bitter effects of the urban living upon an Indian family. Brought up in luxury and magnificence by an over indulgent mother, Nirode settles down in Calcutta and becomes engrossed in its bohemian life, while his elder sister, Monisha lives out a servile existence within the rigid and stiff confines of a traditional Hindu family. Amla sees the city as a monster, Nirode sacrifices everything for his career, and Monisha cannot bear her stifling existence in the household of a wealthy old Calcutta family.
...has a vitality that highlights a compulsive creative talent...There is a convincing fury about this novel.
...succeeds in creating a living, imaginative and eloquent impression of India.
...the style (Anita Desai) has evolved is lucid, tight, undramatic...her imagistic prose acquires an ambiguous and terrible power- the words hold down the events forcibly.
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.