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Games at Twilight and Other Stories
Author: Anita Desai
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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...
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Author: Anita Desai
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Author Anita Desai
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 5h 20m
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.
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