Fasting, Feasting

Fasting, Feasting Synopsis

This Man Booker Prize finalist is a ';splendid novel' about siblings and their very different lives in India and America (The Wall Street Journal). Uma, the plain spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditionsunlike her ambitious younger sister, who has made a ';good' marriage and managed to escape. Meanwhile their brother Arun, the disappointing son and heir, is studying in America, living in a Massachusetts suburb with the Patton familywhere he finds himself bewildered by the culture that surrounds him... ';Such witty writing... You take its suffering characters to heart.' The Boston Globe ';Stunning... Looks gently but without sentimentality at an Indian family that, despite Western influence, is bound by Eastern traditions.' Publishers Weekly (starred review) ';Desai's characters are wonderfully, fallibly human as they wend their way through the maze of everyday domestic tensions.' San Francisco Chronicle

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