English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1716 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Anita Desai
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The idea
Anita Desai, born in British India in nineteen thirty-seven to an Indian father and a German mother, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, including for In Custody. The anchor describes her psychological insight into the displaced and alienated and women's domestic lives.
In practice
Displacement and domestic life.
Where people slip
Facts only for living authors.
Your place on the trail
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