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Anita Desai
Indian
Novelist
Born:
Jun 24
,
1937
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My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
Anita Desai
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Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
Anita Desai
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The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
Anita Desai
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