Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Desai ta buga littafinta na farko, Cry The Peacock, a cikin 1963. Ta yi la'akari da Hasken Hasken Hasken Haske (1980) aikinta mafi yawan tarihin rayuwarta kamar yadda aka saita shi a lokacin da ta girma da kuma a cikin unguwar da ta girma. A cikin 1984, ta wallafa A cikin tsare <unk> game da mawaƙin Urdu a cikin kwanakin da ya ragu <unk> wanda aka zaɓa don kyautar Booker. A cikin 1993, ta zama malamin rubutu mai kirkira a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Massachusetts. Littafin littafin 1999 na littafin Booker Prize mai suna Fasting Feasting ya kara mata farin jini. Littafinta, The Zigzag Way, wanda aka kafa a karni na 20 na Mexico, ya bayyana a 2004 kuma sabon tarin labarun ta, The Artist of Disappearance an buga shi a 2011.Desai ya koyar a Kwalejin Mount Holyoke, Kwalejin Baruch da Kwalejin Smith. Ta kasance Fellow na Royal Society of Literature, da American Academy of Arts and Letters, da kuma Girton College, Cambridge (wanda ta sadaukar da Bombay na Baumgartner).  Tambaya: A wace shekara aka fara buga littafin Desai?
Shekara ta 1963