Description
Across nine luminous short stories, this collection travels from the Himalayas to Delhi, from Canada to the American Northeast, and beyond—yet it keeps circling one intimate question: what lies beneath the lives people construct day by day. Characters shaped by migration, family duty, and shifting cultural expectations confront the complicated nature of love, which can soothe, unsettle, demand sacrifice, and still endure. With psychological acuity and lyrical precision, the stories reveal how longing and obligation coexist in ordinary moments—whether in the shifting bonds between sisters, the competing meanings of “home,” or domestic rituals that quietly expose deeper needs. Tenderness and tragedy arrive with a quietly sharp humor, as fragile and exact as diamond dust.
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hardcover
P/B
Published Jan 1, 2000
224 pages
ISBN: 9780701169008
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Details
First Published
2000
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Diamond Dust by Anita Desai.