Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Passage: Desai bipụtara akwụkwọ akụkọ mbụ ya, Cry The Peacock, na 1963. Ọ na-ele Clear Light of Day (1980) anya dị ka ọrụ ya kachasị akụkọ ndụ ya ebe ọ bụ na a na-etinye ya n'oge ọ na-etolite na n'otu agbata obi ebe ọ tolitere. N'afọ 1984, ọ bipụtara Na njide <unk> banyere onye na-ede uri Urdu n'ụbọchị ya na-agbada <unk> nke a họpụtara maka Booker Prize. N'afọ 1993, ọ ghọrọ onye nkuzi na-ede ihe na Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Akwụkwọ akụkọ ikpeazụ nke 1999 Booker Prize Fasting Feasting mere ka ọ bụrụ onye ama ama. Akwụkwọ akụkọ ya, The Zigzag Way, nke edere na narị afọ nke 20 na Mexico, pụtara na 2004 na nchịkọta akụkọ ya kachasị ọhụrụ, The Artist of Disappearance e bipụtara na 2011. Desai kụziri na Mount Holyoke College, Baruch College na Smith College. Ọ bụ onye otu nke Royal Society of Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters, na nke Girton College, Cambridge (nke ọ raara nye Baumgartner's Bombay).  Ajụjụ: Afọ ole ka e bipụtara akwụkwọ akụkọ mbụ Desai?
Afọ 1963