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Book Description
Anita Desai's new book, hailed as "unsparing, yet tender and funny,"* brilliantly confirms her place among today's foremost Indian writers. FASTING, FEASTING takes on Desai's greatest theme: the intricate, delicate web of family conflict. It tells the moving story of Uma, the plain older daughter ofContinue
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lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010
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In a town in Bihar State in India, on the veranda overlooking their garden, a husband and wife sit side by side, rocking in a sofa-swing, chatting quietly about yesterday evening’s bridge game at the club, about tonight’s dinner menu, about events at ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 228 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0618065822
- ISBN-13: 9780618065820
- Publisher: Mariner Books
- Pub date: Jan 03, 2000
- Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Audio Cassette
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780618065820 | Paperback | $13.95 | $11.92 | bn.com |
| $13.95 | $11.93 | The Book Depository | ||
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When Tim Parks reviewed Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, The Ground beneath Her Feet, in the New York Review of Books he grumbled ‘that the sheer quantity of events that crowd these 575 pages is such as to overwhelm any depiction of inner life or any m ... (read full critics)