ANITA DESAI: FASTING, FEASTING

Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award (now fellow of the Akademi), Anita Desai has been active on the literary scene for over four decades now. Her published works include adult novels, children’s books and short stories. Clear Light of the Day, In Custody and Fasting,Feasting were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and The Village by the Sea won the Guardian Award for Children’s Fiction. Fasting,Feasting as it is implied in the title itself, seeks to offer an apparent contrast between the two cultures-India and America-through two deformed observe, Uma and Arun. It unpicks two contrasting cultures and finds that women are slaves in both. The opposites are thus ultimately similar, hardly opposed. The novel has been assessed and analysed from every possible angle to meet the requirements of our university students at graduate and post graduate levels in this critical study.

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