The Fictional World Of Anita Desai

Anita Desai is an internationally acclaimed novelist of Indian writing in English. She has won coveted Sahitya Academy award in 1978 for her novel “Fire on the Mountain” and the British Guardian Price for “Village by the Sea”. Her novel’s “Clear Light of Day” “In Custody” and “Fasting” Fasting were shortlisted for Booker Prize. She has always been a favourite novelist for the reader of psychological novels. Her presentation of socio-cultural aspects is full of realism. I have chosen to work upon because of the superb feminists’ mode and true to life depiction of various happenings in Indian sub-continent.