Fasting, Feasting
$30.09
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
20 August 2018
Summary
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this warm, beautiful novel explores the intricate nets of family life in both India and America.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1999 BOOKER PRIZE
Uma, the plain, spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions, unlike her ambitious younger sister Aruna, who brings off a ‘good’ marriage, and brother Arun, the disappointing son and heir who is studying in America.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784873936 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784873934 |
| Author: | Anita Desai |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 20 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 173g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 16mm |
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Desai has a wicked, subtle humour…and her characters are beautifully described… Her writing is polished and mature, with a wit she cleverly underplays
Desai has a wicked, subtle humour…and her characters are beautifully described… Her writing is polished and mature, with a wit she cleverly underplays * Daily Telegraph *Anita Desai is one of Tolstoy’s inheritors. Like his, her writing is sensuous, radical and uncannily perceptive… Fasting, Feasting is a hypnotically readable story, in language which has the precision of poetry…an ambitious, successful and disturbing novel * The Times *A compelling, mature work by India’s finest writer in English * Independent *A quiet, low-key novel, notable for its vignettes…[which] are so sharp, so rich in detail, that the book packs a real polemic punch…Fasting Feasting is a fine showcase for the delicate, distinctive skills of Anita Desai * Sunday Telegraph *
About The Author
Anita Desai
Born and educated in India, Anita Desai is the author of many novels and short stories, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody and Fasting, Feasting. She is the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of Literature.
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