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Clear Light of Day

Anita Desai

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#2627 of 8,085 books · #1150 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1980).

Clear Light of Day was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. At the heart of this novel are the moving relationships between the estranged members of the Das family. 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 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, blending into a domestic drama that leads to beautiful and profound moments of self-understanding. Set in the vividly portrayed environs of Old Delhi, the novel explores the moving relationships within this family as they confront their shared past and the bonds that hold them together.

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Publisher
Heinemann
ISBN-13
9780547526294
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Family relationships and estrangementMemory and the pastSibling bonds in India

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