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The complete short fiction by the three-times Booker shortlisted author, gathered together in a single volume for the first time

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The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai´s short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author. From the icy suburbs of Canada to the overcrowded B&Bs of Cornwall, via the hill towns and cities of India, Anita Desai observes human behaviour unflinchingly but not unkindly, recognising our ordinariness and our strangeness, and capturing both with quiet precision.

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"Anita Desai is one of the greats of the modern short story ... The whole collection breathes old-style quality" Phil Baker The Sunday Times

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