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Fasting, Feasting
  • Published: 20 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784873936
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $34.99

Fasting, Feasting

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20 Aug 2018
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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.

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.
  • Published: 20 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784873936
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $34.99
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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 Letters and the Royal Society of Literature.
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