num_pages: 144
description: Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched with sadness, Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters - the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon; the American wife who, homesick for the verdant farmlands of Vermont, turns to the hippies in the Indian hills; the painter living in a slum who fills his canvasses with flowers, birds and landscapes he has never seen.
language: English
title: Games at Twilight: And Other Stories
titlecomplete: Games at Twilight: And Other Stories
genres: Asian Literature, Fiction, Classics, Indian Literature, Read For School, India, Asia, Literature, Short Stories, School
ratings_count: 383
publisher: Penguin Books