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A wonderful novel in two parts, moving from the heart of a close-knit Indian household, with its restrictions and prejudices, its noisy warmth and sensual appreciation of food, to the cool centre of an American family, with its freedom and strangely self-denying attitudes to eating. In both it is ultimately the women who suffer, whether, paradoxically, from a surfeit of feasting and family life in India, or from self-denial and starvation in the US. Or both. Uma, the plain, older daughter still lives at home, frustrated in her attempts to escape and make a life for herself. Her Indian family is difficult, demanding but mostly, good-hearted. Despite her disappointments, Uma comes through as the survivor, avoiding an unfulfilling marriage, like her sister's, or a suicidal one, like that arranged for her pretty cousin. And in America, where young Arun goes as a student, men in the suburbs char hunks of bleeding meat while the women don't appear to cook or eat at all - seems bewildering and terrifying to the young Indian adolescent far from home...

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Fiction & related items Romance

• Pełny tytuł: Fasting, Feasting
• Autor: Anita Desai
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 224
• EAN: 9780099289630
• ISBN: 0099289636
• ID: 04015890
• Wydawca: VINT
• Waga: 157 g
• Wymiary: 201 × 130 × 16 mm
• Data wydania: 01. June 2000

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