In Stock
Fasting, feasting
Paperback
€11.99
Collect 35 Reward Points
- Free Delivery from
- This Book Is Available Online Only
- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- 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.
- Product Details
-
- ISBN
- 9781784873936
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics, (07 June 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 240
- Weight
- 173 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 130 x 16 mm
- Categories: