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Fasting, Feasting

Anita Desai

  • 227 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1999
  • 5 editions
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1 About this book

Uma, the older daughter of an Indian family, lives in relative poverty with her parents, while her younger brother Arun lives in America; both tending to their demanding parents.

  • India
  • Young women
  • Brothers and sisters
  • Family life
  • Siblings
  • Social life and customs
  • Massachusetts

2 About Anita Desai

Born 1937

Anita Desai (born Anita Mazumdar; 1937) is an Indian novelist and the emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Literature. She won the Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea (1983).

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