Fasting, Feasting - Softcover

Desai, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099289636 ISBN 13: 9780099289630

Verlag: Vintage, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

RO60141499. FASTING, FEASTING. 2000. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 227 pages. Annotations au dos du 1er plat (ex-libris). Annotation au feutre sur la tranche.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

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Críticas:

"Desai has a wicked, subtle humour...and her characters are beautifully described... Her writing is polished and mature, with a wit she cleverly underplays" (Daily Telegraph)

"Anita Desai is one of Tolstoy's inheritors. Like his, her writing is sensuous, radical and uncannily perceptive... Fasting, Feasting is a hypnotically readable story, in language which has the precision of poetry...an ambitious, successful and disturbing novel" (The Times)

"A compelling, mature work by India's finest writer in English" (Independent)

"A quiet, low-key novel, notable for its vignettes...[which] are so sharp, so rich in detail, that the book packs a real polemic punch...Fasting Feasting is a fine showcase for the delicate, distinctive skills of Anita Desai" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Desai is more than smart; she's an undeniable genius." (Washington Post)

Reseña del editor:

Uma, the plain, spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions, unlike her ambitious younger sister Aruna, who brings off a 'good' marriage, and brother Arun, the disappointing son and heir who is studying in America.

Across the world in Massachusetts, life with the Patton family is bewildering for Arun in the alien culture of freedom, freezers and paradoxically self-denying self-indulgence.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0099289636
• ISBN 13: 9780099289630
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240