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    Major Works of Anita Desai‚ the Indian Novelist Most of Desai’s works engage the complexities of modern Indian culture from a feminine perspective while highlighting the female Indian predicament of maintaining self-identity as an individual woman. Cry‚ the Peacock‚ Desai’s first novel‚ chronicles the morbid dread‚ descent into madness‚ and suicide of Maya‚ a young Delhi housewife who is trapped in a loveless‚ arranged marriage to the much older Gautama‚ a misogynistic lawyer. The novel foreshadows

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    Anita Desai’s Village by the Sea is set in a small village called Thul‚ which is 14 kilometres from Bombay. Lila‚ the eldest child among four siblings‚ is but thirteen years of age‚ yet she already has the outlook and maturity of an adult. Her brother Hari‚ twelve is the only person with whom she can share her troubles . Their mother is an invalid and needs constant care and nursing. Nobody knows what exactly is wrong with her but she grows weaker and weaker with every passing day. Their father

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    A Devoted Son by Anita Desai Summary This story takes place in a shabby suburb in India. Rakesh‚ the son of a vegetable seller‚ triumphs in medical school and afterwards. He is a devoted son‚ bowing to his father‚ marrying the girl his parents choose‚ and becoming the director of his own clinic nearby. His father grows old‚ becomes a widower and begins to develop physical complaints and unpleasant habits‚ such as spitting forcibly. Still‚ his son tends him‚ and even decides to take over the man’s

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    Part 1‚ Chapters 1 and 2 Summary Anita Desai’s novel of intricate family relations plays out in two countries‚ India and the United States. The core characters comprise a family living in a small town in India‚ where provincial customs and attitudes dictate the futures of all children: girls are to be married off and boys are to become as educated as possible. The story contrasts the life of the main character‚ Uma‚ the family’s older daughter‚ with Arun‚ the boy and baby of the family. Uma spends

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    Name of the book; Village by the see By; Anita Desai Story; of an Indian family A story of an Indian family‚ staying in a village‚ called Thul‚ almost 14 miles away form Mumbai one of the most famous cities of India. This family consists of a mother who is very sick and lying in bed all the time‚ father who drinks all the time and is unable to work due to his hard drinking habit‚ three sisters and a brother‚ the two younger sisters who are studying at school‚ and an elder sister who has stopped

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    THEME OF ALIENATION IN ANITA DESAI’S NOVELS WITH REFERENCE TO ‘CRY‚ THE PEACOCK’‚ ‘VOICES IN THE CITY’ AND ‘FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN’ Alienation is one of the greatest problems confronting modern man. The 20th century Especially the postwar period has been called the ‘Age of Alienation’. Edmund Fuller remarks that in our age man suffers not only from war persecution ‚ famine and ruin‚ but from inner problem a conviction on isolation ‚ randomness ‚ meaninglessness in his way of existence. There are

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    Beloved is a novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War (1861–1865)‚ it is inspired by the story of an AfricanAmerican slave‚ Margaret Garner‚ who temporarily escaped slavery during 1856 in Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio‚ a free state. A posse arrived to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850‚ which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders. Margaret killed her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured

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    Global Markets Final Exam: The Pringles Launch Introduction to Italy In order to ensure a successful launch for Pringles in Italy‚ Proctor and Gamble (P&G) needs to tailor their marketing strategies to the culture of Italy. While experiences from Pringles launches throughout the world can be helpful‚ there is no guarantee that Pringles can achieve the same level of success in Italy. P&G has a very unique and popular product in Pringles‚ but it will require a correct marketing strategy focusing

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    "This is a novel about a small-town man‚ Deven‚ who gets the opportunity to go interview his hero‚ the great poet Nur‚ the greatest living Urdu poet. Having always loved Urdu poetry and missed the chance to be an Urdu language professor‚ he is charmed into going to Delhi the big city. Even though he shrinks at the idea of possibly being exploited by his sharp and selfish friend Murad‚ the dream of meeting Nur draws him on. So he sets off on a number of adventures on Sundays‚ the one free

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    Review: Fasting‚ Feasting by Anita Desai The most recent novel of Indian born author Anita Desai‚ Fasting‚ Feasting (1999) tells the story of two middle-class families and the allegorical struggles of the individual members to find individual identity and happiness. This meticulously constructed prose gravitates towards the position of women in the family unit and explores socially ordered gender imbalance in domestic life. Featuring a traditional Indian family in provincial town India and a typical

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