Fire on the Mountain

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Fire on the Mountain is a critically acclaimed novel by Indian author Anita Desai that explores themes of isolation, memory, and female subjectivity in a quiet Himalayan hill town.

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Fire on the Mountain canonical 2

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instanceOf novel
author Anita Desai
awarded Sahitya Akademi Award
awardYear 1978
countryOfOrigin India
criticalReception critically acclaimed
explores aging
domestic life
patriarchy
solitude
trauma
genre literary fiction
psychological fiction
hasCharacter Ila Das
Nanda Kaul
Raka
hasForm prose
hasISBN 9780706904870
hasPageCountApprox 150
hasProtagonist Nanda Kaul
hasTargetAudience adult readers
language English
literaryMovement postcolonial Indian literature
mainTheme female subjectivity
isolation
memory
narrativeFocus inner lives of women
narrativeStyle third-person narration
partOfSeries Heinemann African Writers Series
publicationYear 1977
publisher Heinemann
Vikas Publishing House
setInRegion Himachal Pradesh (implied)
linked to: Himachal Pradesh
setting Himalayan hill town
settingCountry India
tone introspective
quiet

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Anita Desai notableWork Fire on the Mountain
Anita Mazumdar notableWork Fire on the Mountain