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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instanceOf novel
author Anita Desai NERFINISHED
awarded Sahitya Akademi Award NERFINISHED
awardYear 1978
countryOfOrigin India
criticalReception critically acclaimed
explores aging
domestic life
patriarchy
solitude
trauma
genre literary fiction
psychological fiction
hasCharacter Ila Das NERFINISHED
Nanda Kaul NERFINISHED
Raka NERFINISHED
hasForm prose
hasISBN 9780706904870
hasPageCountApprox 150
hasProtagonist Nanda Kaul NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1977
publisher Heinemann NERFINISHED
Vikas Publishing House NERFINISHED
setInRegion Himachal Pradesh (implied) NERFINISHED
setting Himalayan hill town
settingCountry India NERFINISHED
tone introspective
quiet

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