by Anita Desai · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420644509
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«Clara luz del día» is the novel by Anita Desai published by Alianza in paperback (341 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows siblings Bim, Raja, Tara and Baba and the tensions that surface when their shared past intersects with their present. Amid memories, renunciations and complicated affections, the plot portrays fraternal relationships, the passage of time and the mark that India's history leaves on domestic life.
Originally published in English as Clear Light of Day in 1980; the Spanish translation is by Gian Castelli Gair. The work was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1980.
For readers of literary fiction interested in Indian narrative and family portraits.
Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and the emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Literature. She won the Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea (1983). Her other works include Cry, the Peacock, Voices in the City (1963), Fire on the Mountain (1977) and an anthology of short stories, Games at Twilight (1978). She is on the advisory board of the Lalit Kala Akademi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London. Since 2020 she has been a Companion of Literature.
