Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this warm, beautiful novel explores the intricate nets of family life in both India and America.
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.
Desai has a wicked, subtle humour...and her characters are
beautifully described... Her writing is polished and mature, with a
wit she cleverly underplays
*Daily Telegraph*
Anita Desai is one of Tolstoy's inheritors. Like his, her writing
is sensuous, radical and uncannily perceptive... Fasting, Feasting
is a hypnotically readable story, in language which has the
precision of poetry...an ambitious, successful and disturbing
novel
*The Times*
A compelling, mature work by India's finest writer in English
*Independent*
A quiet, low-key novel, notable for its vignettes...[which] are so
sharp, so rich in detail, that the book packs a real polemic
punch...Fasting Feasting is a fine showcase for the delicate,
distinctive skills of Anita Desai
*Sunday Telegraph*
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