Where Shall we go this Summer by Anita Desai Summary | Notes

This video discusses Where shall we go this Summer by Anita Desai published in 1975. The novel is an intense story of a sensitive young wife torn between the desire to abandon the boredom and hypocrisy of her middle class and comfortable existence.

Sita, a sensitive, emotional, and middle-aged woman feels alienated from her husband and children. She undergoes acute mental agonies. She silently- suffers in isolation because of her sharp existentialist sensibility and explosive emotionality. The novel is a pointer to her angst and ennui of her anguished soul. Sita tries to visualize the world of her dreams. But ultimately she intensifies her desire to recapture the experience and excitement in her. Therefore, she comes to a dilemma to decide as to where she should go that summer. Further, the novel describes the cruelty of urban life. It marks a return to the autonomous world of inner reality. When Sita is with the child again she panics and runs away to a small island of Manori to avoid the harsh reality. Her sudden capitulation comes as an anti-climax.

Anita Desai b. 1937, is an Indian novelist and the Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain and won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea (1983).


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