Fasting, Feasting

Desai, Anita

ISBN 10: 0618065822 / ISBN 13: 9780618065820

Published by Mariner Books (edition First Edition Thus), 2000

About this Item

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

Seller Inventory # 0618065822-11-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fasting, Feasting
• Publisher: Mariner Books (edition First Edition Thus)
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618065822
• ISBN 13: 9780618065820
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition Thus.
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Hailed as “unsparing, yet tender and funny,” Fasting, Feasting is a “splendid novel” about siblings and their very different lives in India and America. (The Wall Street Journal)
Fasting, Feasting tells the moving story of Uma, the plain older daughter of an Indian family, tied to the household of her childhood and tending to her parents' every extravagant demand, and of her younger brother, Arun, across the world in Massachusetts, bewildered by his new life in college and the suburbs, where he lives with the Patton family.
Beautifully written and bleakly comedic, Fasting, Feasting explores family dynamics in opposing cultures. Desai has a gift for conveying “the tangled complexities of Indian tradition with an economy of language that is clean, simple and elegantly straightforward." (The Denver Post)

About the Author

ANITA DESAI is the author of Fasting, Feasting, The Art of Disappearance, TheZig Zag Way, Clear Light of Day, Diamond Dust and Rosarita, among other works. Three of her books have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Desai was born and educated in India and now lives in the New York City area.