title: Diamond Dust and Other Stories
author: ANITA DESAI
description: Owner's inscription, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.
zlib_text: **Diamond Dust**
  
  > > > > > > > > >  **STORIES**
  
  Anita Desai
  
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   _A Mariner Original_  
  HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY  
  BOSTON • NEW YORK  
  2000
  
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  Copyright © 2000 by Anita Desai  
  All rights reserved
  
  For information about permission to reproduce  
  selections from this book, write to  
  Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company,  
  215 Park Avenue South, New York,  
  New York 10003.
  
  Visit our Web site: [_www.hmco.com/trade_](http://www.hmco.com/trade).
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication  
  data is available.  
  _ISBN_ 0-618-04213-x
  
  First published in Great Britain in 2000  
  by Chatto & Windus
  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  QUM 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
  
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  >  _To my students at M.I.T._  
  >  _who have been my teachers_
  
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  **Acknowledgements**
  
  Many thanks to the Civitella Ranieri Foundation for providing me with a summer
  in Umbria where I revised these stories. The author and publisher are grateful
  to New Directions and Carcanet Press for permission to reprod