Diamond Dust by Anita Desai [in aOnline]
05 Jul, by in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian, South Asian American
A word of advice: Don’t read The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (which just won the Pulitzer for fiction) at the same time as Anita Desai’s new collection of short stories, Diamond Dust....
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