Fasting Feasting by Anita Desai
Hailed as “unsparing, yet tender and funny,” Fasting, Feasting is a “splendid novel” about siblings and their very different lives in India and America. (The Wall Street Journal)
Fasting, Feasting tells the moving story of Uma, the plain older daughter of an Indian family, tied to the household of her childhood and tending to her parents' every extravagant demand, and of her younger brother, Arun, across the world in Massachusetts, bewildered by his new life in college and the suburbs, where he lives with the Patton family.
Beautifully written and bleakly comedic, Fasting, Feasting explores family dynamics in opposing cultures. Desai has a gift for conveying “the tangled complexities of Indian tradition with an economy of language that is clean, simple and elegantly straightforward. (The Denver Post)
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 | 9780786226382 |
| ISBN 10 | 0786226382 |
| Title | Fasting Feasting |
| Author | Anita Desai |
| Series | Basic |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Thorndike Press |
| Year published | 2000-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 316 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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