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Desai's new book brilliantly confirms her place among today's foremost Indian writers. Shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, Fasting, Feasting takes on Desai's greatest theme: the intricate, delicate web of family conflict. Published in Britain to rave reviews, Fasting, Feasting is "rich in the sensuous atmosphere, elegiac pathos and bleak comedy at which the author excels" (The Spectator). It tells the 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 brother, Arun, across the world in Massachusetts, bewildered by his life in college and the suburbs. A remarkable tale of two different attempts to assuage human hungers, Fasting, Feasting is Anita Desai at her most penetrating, most graceful best.
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