The Village by the Sea

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An Award-winning story about a family's survival in a small fishing village in India. With their mother ill and their father permanently drunk, Hari and lila have to earn the money to keep house and look after their two young sisters. Indespration, Hari runs away to Bombay, and Lila is left to cope alone.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anita Desai

Anita Desai was born in 1937. Her father wat Bengali, her mother German. Educated in Delhi, she now lives in Bombay. Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her published works include adult novels, two collections of shorts stories and two books for children. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London and the Academy of Arts and letters in new York. She is a professor of Writing at the Massachuset Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachustts.

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Title
The Village by the Sea
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9780143335498
Length
vi+260p., 20cm.
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