Bye Bye Blackbird
By Anita Desai
1984
First Published
3.04
Average Rating
224
Number of Pages
Set against englands green and grisly landscape, enigmatic and attractive to some, depressing and nauseating to others, bye-bye black bird explores the lives of the outsiders seeking to forge a new identity in an alien society
Avg Rating
3.04
Number of Ratings
93
5 STARS
6%
4 STARS
27%
3 STARS
38%
2 STARS
23%
1 STARS
6%
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Author
Anita Desai
Author · 22 books
Anita Desai was born in 1937. Her published works include adult novels, children's books and short stories. She is a member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delhi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. Anita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times. Her daughter, the author Kiran Desai, is the winner of the 2006 Booker prize.
