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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.Across the world in Massachusetts, life with the Patton family is bewildering for Arun in the alien culture of freedom, freezers and paradoxically self-denying self-indulgence.

 

Review

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)

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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.Across the world in Massachusetts, life with the Patton family is bewildering for Arun in the alien culture of freedom, freezers and paradoxically self-denying self-indulgence.

From the Back Cover

"In Fasting, Feasting -- the most recent in a series of outstanding fictions -- she returns to a world which is already disappearing and a milieu of which she remains the peerless chronicler... This is a compelling, mature work by India's finest writer in English." -- Independent

"A fine showcase for the delicate, distinctive skills of Anita Desai." -- Sunday Telegraph

"Desai has a wicked, subtle humour... and her characters are beautifully described." -- 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

About the Author

Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her novels include Clear Light of Day and In Custody, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She teaches in the Writing Program at MIT, and divides her time between India, Massachusetts, and Cambridge, England. In Custody was filmed by Merchant Ivory Productions.
 
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  • ISBN: 9780099289630
  • Author: Anita Desai
  • Publisher: Vintage Books
  • Pages: 240
  • Format: Paperback
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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.Across the world in Massachusetts, life with the Patton family is bewildering for Arun in the alien culture of freedom, freezers and paradoxically self-denying self-indulgence.

 

Review

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)

From the Inside Flap

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.Across the world in Massachusetts, life with the Patton family is bewildering for Arun in the alien culture of freedom, freezers and paradoxically self-denying self-indulgence.

From the Back Cover

"In Fasting, Feasting -- the most recent in a series of outstanding fictions -- she returns to a world which is already disappearing and a milieu of which she remains the peerless chronicler... This is a compelling, mature work by India's finest writer in English." -- Independent

"A fine showcase for the delicate, distinctive skills of Anita Desai." -- Sunday Telegraph

"Desai has a wicked, subtle humour... and her characters are beautifully described." -- 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

About the Author

Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her novels include Clear Light of Day and In Custody, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She teaches in the Writing Program at MIT, and divides her time between India, Massachusetts, and Cambridge, England. In Custody was filmed by Merchant Ivory Productions.
 

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