Faasino i le vaega o loo i lalo ma tali le fesili mulimuli ane i le gagana lava lea e tasi e pei o le vaega:  Faamatalaga: Na lomia e Desai lana tusi muamua, Cry The Peacock, i le 1963. Na ia manatu i le Clear Light of Day (1980) o lana galuega e sili ona talaaga o ia lava e pei ona faʻatulagaina i le taimi o lona matua ma i le pitonuu lava e tasi na ia ola aʻe ai. I le 1984, na ia lolomiina I le Nofoaga Faʻasalaga <unk> e uiga i se tusisolo Urdu i ona aso ua paʻu <unk> lea na filifilia mo le Booker Prize. I le 1993, na avea ai o ia ma faiaoga tusitusi fatufatuaʻi i le Massachusetts Institute of Technology. O le 1999 Booker Prize finalist novel Fasting Feasting na faʻateleina ai lona lauiloa. O lana tusi, The Zigzag Way, na tusia i le seneturi lona 20 i Mekisiko, na lomia i le 2004 ma o lana aoina lata mai o tala pupuu, The Artist of Disappearance na lomia i le 2011. Na aʻoaʻo Desai i le Mount Holyoke College, Baruch College ma le Smith College. O ia o se sui o le Royal Society of Literature, o le American Academy of Arts and Letters, ma le Girton College, Cambridge (lea na ia faapaiaina ai le Baumgartner's Bombay).  Fesili: O le ā le tausaga na lomia ai e Desai lana tusi?
1963 Faailoga