Fire On The Mountain
Jun 2011 · Random House
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Nanda Kaul is old. She has chosen to spend her last years high up in the mountains where she can arrange her thoughts into tranquility. But her solitude is broken when her fragile and secretive great-grand-daughter, Raka, comes to stay. It is an intrusion Nanda Kaul deeply resents, but this child has a capacity to change things. Through the long hot summer months hidden dependencies and old wounds are uncovered, until tragedy seems as inevitable as a forest fire on the hillsides surrounding the villa.
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SIDDHANT RAO
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November 28, 2019
I randomly picked it up from my college library(i found the title appealing) & i wasn't aware about the writer then. Once i started reading it, i kept on going mainly bcz it is set in Kasoli (Himachal Pradesh) & it is one of the places that i really would like to go again sometime when it is not much visited by people. The book is worth reading, won't take much time. I liked the book and i look forward to reading another one from the author.
Ajay Vishwakarma
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February 7, 2023
The book is worth reading, and i liked the most that all the characters are set in India.
About the author
Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her published works include novels, children's books and short stories. Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting Feasting (1999) were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and The Village by the Sea won the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction in 1982. Anita Desai is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London, of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York and of Girton College at the University of Cambridge. She teaches in the Writing Program at M.I.T and divides her time between India, Boston, Massachusetts and Cambridge, England. In Custody was recently filmed by Merchant Ivory Productions.
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