The Village by the Sea: an Indian family story is a novel for young people by the Indian writer Anita Desai, published in London by Heinemann in 1982. It is based on the poverty, hardships and sorrow faced by a small rural, community in India.
"The Village by the Sea," a novel for young readers written by Anita Desai and published in London by Heinemann in 1982, tells the story of an Indian family living in poverty and facing hardship in a rural village in India.