# The Complete Stories

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- Authors: [Anita Desai](https://www.bookquiver.com/anita-desai)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8470-664-7
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2018-06-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance , with a new preface from the author. From the icy suburbs of Canada to the overcrowded B&Bs of Cornwall, via the hill towns and cities of India, Anita Desai observes human behaviour unflinchingly but not unkindly, recognising our ordinariness and our strangeness, and capturing both with quiet precision.