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|title=The Artist of Disappearance

|sort=Artist of Disappearance

|publisher=Vintage

|date=August 2012

|summary=A beautifully crafted collection of three novellas all set in modern day India sharing themes of loss and the artistic process. The quality of the writing shines through.

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Anita Desai's ''The Artist of Disappearance'' is a collection of three novellas with several satisfying unifying features. All are set in modern day India, all involve some looking back in time and all three involve some consideration of the creative art - who it is for, what happens to it once it leaves the artist's control and who 'owns' it. Most of all, each one is beautifully written, with strong characters and evocative descriptions of personal loss. In terms of length each is relatively short - around 50 pages long - but after each one you feel that you've been engrossed in the story just as much as if you had read a novel of more conventional length.