Fire on the mountain

Title Fire on the mountain
Author Anita Desai
Publication Random House India
Size 159p
Language ENG ENG
ISBN 9788184000573
Topics Indian fiction--English
Indian fiction--Love
India--Social life and customs--Fiction
Awards--Sahitya Akademi Award
Awards--Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
Notes A classic from one of India's greatest writers with a stunning new cover in water colour. Gone are the days when Nanda Kaul watched over her family and played the part of Vice-Chancellor's wife. Leaving her children behind in the real world, the busier world, she has chosen to spend her last years alone in the mountains in Kasauli, in a secluded bungalow called Carignano. Until one summer her great-granddaughter Raka is dispatched to Kasauli and everything changes. Nanda is at first dismayed at this break in her preciously acquired solitude. Fiercely taciturn, Raka is, like her, quite untamed. The girl prefers the company of apricot trees and animals to her great-grandmother's, and spends her afternoons rambling over the mountainside. But the two are more alike than they know. Throughout the hot, long summer, Nanda's old, hidden dependencies and wounds come to the surface, ending, inevitably, in tragedy. Marvellous yet restrained, Fire on the Mountain speaks of the past and its unshakable hold over the present.
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