Journey To Ithaca
by Anita Desai
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New, slight wear to cover
- ISBN 10
- 0679439005
- ISBN 13
- 9780679439004
- Seller
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Barrington, Illinois, United States
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Synopsis
Anita Desai was born in 1937; her father was Bengali and her mother German, and she was educated in Delhi. Her publihsed work includes Clear Light of Day , which was shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize, Fire on the Mountain , for which she won the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and the 1978 National Academy of Letters Award, In Custody , which was shortlisted for the 1984 Booker Prize, a volume of short stories, Games at Twilight , and Baumgartner's Bombay , all of which are publihsed in Penguin. She has also written several books for children. She is a member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delhi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. She was awarded the Neil Gunn International Fellowship for 1994. Anita Desai is married, has four children, and lives in India.
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- Bookseller
- Rocking Chair Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3843790
- Title
- Journey To Ithaca
- Author
- Anita Desai
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, Dustjacket
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679439005
- ISBN 13
- 9780679439004
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 312
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