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Fire on the Mountain (Paperback)

by Anita Desai (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (5 April 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099428482
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099428480
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 154,508 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Strikingly original, 2 Feb 2007
By Philippe Horak (Zug, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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Strikingly original
Nanda Kaul, an elderly lady, decides to live a secluded life in Carignano in Kausali. All she wishes to entertain is stillness and calm in this period of her life. All her life the care of others, her 3 daughters and her husband the vice-consul has been a religious calling she has believed in, a vocation that one day went dull as though its life-spring had dried up. She suffered from nimiety, the disorder caused by the fluctuating and unpredictable excess of the presence of family members, friends and acquaintances.
When one day Nanda receives a letter from her daughter Asha asking her to take care of her great-granddaughter Raka, a feeling of anger, disappointment and loathing arises in her. She doesn't feel like conversing again, she doesn't want to make sure of another's life and comfort, she doesn't want to get involved anymore.
Upon Raka's arrival they work out means by which they can live together and each feels she is doing her best at avoiding the other. Nanda is a recluse out of vengeance for a long life of duty and obligation, Rak is a recluse by nature and instinct. Her parents have long given up to try to socialise her. But slowly the child has the capacity to change things and Nanda discovers new needs within herself. When finally violence explodes, she has to face the truth.
An original novel full of delicate observations about human nature and parental relationships.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Desai's work is memorable, 19 Mar 2004
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This book was unusually written and tells the sad tale of 3 women. However the sadness is not in your face and it does not makes you despair for the characters. Enjoyable and memorable and can be read again.Quite funny too.
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