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Plain, unmarriageable Uma has failed to outgrow her childhood home. Overprotected and starved for a life, she is surrounded and smothered by her overbearing parents, successful sister Aruna, who has outpaced her by pulling off a 'good marriage', and Arun, the family's disappointment of a son. Eccentric aunts and cousins complete the scene of her claustrophobic existence, with its bitter-sweet treats of puri-alu and barfi s, samosas and fritters; and tragedies, big and small. Across the world in Massachusetts, where Arun has gone as a student, family life in an American suburb is bewilderingly different. The Pattons, who he lives with, appear strange and terrible to a young Indian, far from home. The women don't appear to cook at all, though they stuff their shopping carts till they run over; the men barbecue huge hunks of meat; their daughter binges on innumerable candy bars. Increasingly, Mrs Patton is desperate to be a vegetarian, like Arun. But what Arun wants most is to be invisible. Moving from the heated hub of a traditional Indian household to the cooler centre of an American one, Fasting, Feasting is a powerful exploration of hunger and plenty, in what is one of Anita Desai's most socially acute novels. 'An ambitious, successful and disturbing novel.' The Times About the Author Anita Desai is one of India's foremost writers. She has authored sixteen works of fiction, including Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984), and Fasting, Feasting (1999) - all shortlisted for the Booker Prize ' as well as Baumgartner's Bombay (1988). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London, the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, Girton College and Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge, and most recently the Sahitya Akademi in India, Anita Desai has been awarded The Alberto Moravia Prize for Literature and the Padma Shri. Born in Mussoorie to a German mother and a Bengali father, she was educated in Delhi and currently divides her time between the US and Mexico. Specifications of Fasting, Feasting
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