Books
by Anita Desai
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Fasting Feasting |
A close-knit, middle class Indian family with three children: Uma, the plain spinster who has failed to find a husband, Aruna, the pretty one who brings off a 'good' marriage' and Arun, the precious but nonetheless disappointing son who is at university in Massachusetts. Here he is surrounded by the bewildering self indulgence of American family life while, back home in India, Uma is stifled by her parents with their petty traditions and silent disapproval.
(Caroline Winstanley - bwl 8 April 2001) |
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