by Anita Desai · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140118865
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«The Village by the Sea» is Anita Desai's young adult novel, published by Penguin in paperback (157 pages, in English).
In the fishing village of Thul, near Bombay, Hari and Lila bear a difficult family situation: their father drinks and their mother is ill. Hari leaves for Bombay in search of work; Lila stays to care for her sisters, while the first changes of industrial India reach the village.
This novel, published with the subtitle 'An Indian Family Story', won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1982.
Aimed at young readers aged 10 to 12, it will also appeal to those seeking a story of maturity and social change in rural India.
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.
