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Fasting, Feasting
Contributor(s): Desai, Anita (Author)

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 ISBN: 0618065822     ISBN-13: 9780618065820
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2024
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Annotation: Anita Desai's new book, hailed as "unsparing, yet tender and funny,"* brilliantly confirms her place among today's foremost Indian writers. FASTING, FEASTING takes on Desai's greatest theme: the intricate, delicate web of family conflict. It 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. Published in Britain to rave reviews, FASTING, FEASTING is "rich in the sensuous atmosphere, elegiac pathos, and bleak comedy at which the author excels" (The Spectator). From the overpowering warmth of Indian culture to the cool center of the American family, it captures the physical -- and emotional -- fasting and feasting that define two distinct cultures. *(Times Literary Supplement)
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 99058524
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.56" W x 8.26" L (0.56 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Indian
- Cultural Region - New England
- Ethnic Orientation - Indian
- Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts
- Topical - Family
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/06/1999 pg. 55
Booklist 12/15/1999 pg. 739
New York Times 01/09/2000 pg. 10
Library Journal 02/01/2000 pg. 115
Library Journal 01/02/2000
 
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Publisher Description:
Anita Desai's new book, hailed as unsparing, yet tender and funny, * brilliantly confirms her place among today's foremost Indian writers. FASTING, FEASTING takes on Desai's greatest theme: the intricate, delicate web of family conflict. It 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. Published in Britain to rave reviews, FASTING, FEASTING is rich in the sensuous atmosphere, elegiac pathos, and bleak comedy at which the author excels (The Spectator). From the overpowering warmth of Indian culture to the cool center of the American family, it captures the physical -- and emotional -- fasting and feasting that define two distinct cultures. *(Times Literary Supplement)

Contributor Bio(s): Desai, Anita: - ANITA DESAI is the author of Fasting, Feasting, Baumgartner's Bombay, Clear Light of Day, and Diamond Dust, among other works. Three of her books have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Desai was born and educated in India and now lives in the New York City area.
 
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