One novel by this author describes a woman pregnant with her fifth child who flees her husband to a rustic island which she believes has magical powers to end her pregnancy.
One novel by this author describes a woman pregnant with her fifth child who flees her husband to a rustic island which she believes has magical powers to end her pregnancy. In a story, this author writes of a boy who longs to win a game of hide-and-seek and crouches in a garage shed, only to be saddened when everyone forgets about him. In addition to Where Shall We Go This Summer? and "Games at Twilight," she wrote about a Jewish businessman Hugo who escaped Nazis in his youth and now lives in a small apartment with a bunch of stray cats. She wrote about Matteo and Sophie, a European couple who come to meet "Mother," in Journey to Ithaca, while Uma is dominated by an "indivisible parental unit" called MamaPapa in her novel Fasting, Feasting. Also the author of novels like Fire On the Mountain and the Booker Prize contender Clear Light of Day, FTP, name this rather recent female ►writer born in India. 
One novel by this author describes a woman pregnant with her fifth child who flees her husband to a rustic island which she believes has magical powers to end her pregnancy.
Anita Desai