Sign In Join Now
User Accessibility
  • Increase Font

  • Invert Colours

Search for a Book Browse Books Menu
Stream / Download

Audiobook streaming provided by:

OverDrive Logo

Share this book:

The Village By the Sea

AuthorAnita Desai

NarratorRachel Sternberg

Duration5h 20m

CategoriesChildren's Fiction

Key StageKS4

PublisherInhouse

VersionUnabridged

  Save to Wish List
  Add to Favourites List

An award-winning story about a family's survival in a small fishing village in India. With their mother drunk, Hari and Lila have to earn the money to keep house and look after their two young sisters. In desperation, Hari runs away to Bombay, and Lila is left to cope alone. Possible prose text for Edexcel GCSE English.

0 (0 Reviews)
0
0
0
0
0

Related Titles

Games at Twilight and Other Stories Cover

Games at Twilight and Other Stories

Author: Anita Desai

Games at Twilight and Other Stories

Author Anita Desai

Narrator Stephanie Beattie

Duration 4h 45m

A collection of stories peopled with intensely individual characters. Meet the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of melon; the American wife who, homesick for the farmlands of Vermont, turns to the hippies in the Indian hills; and the painter living in a slum who fills his canvasses with flowers, birds and landscapes he has never s...

View Book