Fasting, Feasting A Fmt by Anita Desai
A wonderful novel in two parts, moving from the heart of a close-knit Indian household, with its restrictions and prejuices, its noisy warmth and sensual appreciation of food, to the cool centre of an American family, with its freedom and strangely self-denying attitudes to eating. In both it is ultimately the women who suffer, whether, paradoxically, from a surfeit of feasting and family life in India, or from self-denial and starvation in the US. or both. Uma, the plain, older daughter still lives at home, frustrated in her attempts to escape and make a life for herself. Her Indian family is difficult , demanding but mostly, good hearted. Despite her disappointments, Uma comes through as the survivor, avoiding an unfulfilling marriage, liek her sister's or a suicidal one, like that arranged for her pretty cousin. And in America, where young Arun goes as a student, men in the suburbs char hunks of bleeding meat while the women don't appear to cook or eat at all - seems bewildering and terriying to the yound Indian adolescent far from home.ANITA DESAI is the author of several books, including Fasting, Feasting, Baumgartner's Bombay, Clear Light of Day, and Diamond Dust. Three of her books have been named to the Booker Prize shortlist. Desai was born and raised in India, but now calls New York City home.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099284727 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099284723 |
| Title | Fasting, Feasting A Fmt |
| Author | Anita Desai |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2000-02-03 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1999 |
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