Clear light of day /
Desai, Anita, 1937-
Clear light of day / - First U.S. edition. - England : Penguin books ©1980 - 183 pages ; 22 cm
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.
0140058605
84673511
Sisters--Fiction.
Brothers--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Indic fiction (English)--20th century.
Delhi (India)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
PR9499.3.D465 / C56x 1980b
ARCH FRBC 823 D441C
Clear light of day / - First U.S. edition. - England : Penguin books ©1980 - 183 pages ; 22 cm
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.
0140058605
84673511
Sisters--Fiction.
Brothers--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Indic fiction (English)--20th century.
Delhi (India)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
PR9499.3.D465 / C56x 1980b
ARCH FRBC 823 D441C