Nanda Kaul is old. She has chosen to spend her last years high up in the mountains where she can arrange her thoughts into tranquility. But her solitude is broken when her fragile and secretive great-grand-daughter, Raka, comes to stay. It is an intrusion Nanda Kaul deeply resents, but this child has a capacity to change things. Through the long hot summer months hidden dependencies and old wounds are uncovered, until tragedy seems as inevitable as a forest fire on the hillsides surrounding the villa.
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Nanda Kaul is old. She has chosen to spend her last years high up in the mountains where she can arrange her thoughts into tranquility. But her solitude is broken when her fragile and secretive great-grand-daughter, Raka, comes to stay. It is an intrusion Nanda Kaul deeply resents, but this child has a capacity to change things. Through the long hot summer months hidden dependencies and old wounds are uncovered, until tragedy seems as inevitable as a forest fire on the hillsides surrounding the villa.
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Good. Anita Desai's 'The Fire on the Mountain'--SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-SOME COVER WEAR-PUBLISHED BY VINTAGE-COPYRIGHT 1999-146 PAGES by A. N. Dwivedi (Author) BOOK REVIEW; A masterpeice and a must read. The language is sheer poetry. A poignant snd insi. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Anita Desai's 'The Fire on the Mountain'--SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-SOME COVER WEAR-PUBLISHED BY VINTAGE-COPYRIGHT 1999-146 PAGES by Desai, Anita (Author) BOOK REVIEW; A masterpeice and a must read. The language is sheer poetry. A poignant snd insightful study of the human condition snd human relations. Desai has the power to trsnsport you to snother world of beauty and terror and fascination.