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Product details
- ISBN 9781529986044
- Weight: 142g
- Dimensions: 131 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Vivid and alive, this powerful novella about one woman's belated rebellion against the powers that be is Anita Desai at her finest.
Nanda Kaul retreats to a quiet house in the hills, determined to live out her days in solitude. But the arrival of her great-granddaughter disrupts the stillness she has carefully built, bringing with it memories she would rather leave behind. Fire on the Mountain is Anita Desai’s subtle, haunting novel of isolation and memory.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
Born and educated in India, Anita Desai is the author of many novels and short stories, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody and Fasting, Feasting. She is the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Royal Society of Literature.
