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263 pp.
| NYRB
| April, 2019
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Paper
ISBN 978-1-68137-351-5
$12.99
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Ebook
ISBN 978-1-68137-352-2
Reissue (1982, Heinemann)
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2)
YA
Desai's gorgeous novel pulls readers in to the world of young Lila and Hari, struggling siblings growing up in the isolated Western Indian village of Thul; both the characters and the place are on the cusp of change. In lucid prose, Desai engages the senses, describing the sigh of the ocean as the tide turns; the children's drunken father snoring in a corner; the village women wading into the sea to meet the fishing fleet and then spilling baskets full of shining, slithering fish onto the sand.