Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

"Games at Twilight"

(1978)

Anita Desai

(June 24, 1937 – )

Notes

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Her story in this anthology, Games at Twilight, is...exceptional for the acuteness, poignancy and unsentimental humour with which the world of childhood is entered, and revealed.

--Salman Rushdie, "Introduction," Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing 1947–1997 (New York: Henry Holt, 1997): xvii.

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Reference

Reference

Desai, Anita. "Games at Twilight." Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing 1947–1997. New York: Henry Holt, 1997. 119–26. Print.

Further Reading

Desai, Anita. "The Man Who Saw Himself Drown." Diamond Dust. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. 83–99. Print.

Mehrotra, Arvind Krisha, ed. A History of Indian Literature in English. London: Hurst, 2003. Print.

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