Fasting, Feasting
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Fasting, Feasting is a novel by Indian
writer
Anita Desai
. It was Shortlisted, Booker Prize for Fiction in 1999.
who lives with her overbearing parents. They confine her at home, smothering her aspirations of independence. Her sister Aruna, by contrast, brings off a good marriage, whereas her younger brother Arun is sent to study in the USA.
India
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Writer
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Anita Desai
Anita Desai
Anita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
. It was Shortlisted, Booker Prize for Fiction in 1999.
Plot summary
Uma is a spinsterSpinster
A spinster, or old maid, is an older, childless woman who has never been married.For a woman to be identified as a spinster, age is critical...
who lives with her overbearing parents. They confine her at home, smothering her aspirations of independence. Her sister Aruna, by contrast, brings off a good marriage, whereas her younger brother Arun is sent to study in the USA.