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- catalog abstract ""Uma, the plain older daughter, fails to outgrow her home and family, and stays on, surrounded and smothered by godlike, overbearing parents, her ambitious, successful sister Aruna, who brings off a 'good' marriage, Arun the disappointing son and heir - and the extended family of strange aunts and cousins like the feckless Ramu and the tragic, beautiful Anamika." "Across the world in Massachusetts, where young Arun goes as a student, life in the suburbs - where the Patton family men char hunks of meat while their womenfolk don't appear to cook or eat at all - is bewildering and full of terror for the young Indian adolescent far from home." "Two different ways of assuaging human hungers, desires and appetites are revealed in this subtle, sharp and poignant story, which moves from the hub of a close-knit Indian household, with its traditional obligations and impositions, its overpowering warmth and sensual response, to the cool centre of an American family, with its freedoms, freezers and paradoxically self-denying self-indulgence. In both there are victims - and survivors."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11230881.
- catalog coverage "India Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Uma, the plain older daughter, fails to outgrow her home and family, and stays on, surrounded and smothered by godlike, overbearing parents, her ambitious, successful sister Aruna, who brings off a 'good' marriage, Arun the disappointing son and heir - and the extended family of strange aunts and cousins like the feckless Ramu and the tragic, beautiful Anamika." "Across the world in Massachusetts, where young Arun goes as a student, life in the suburbs - where the Patton family men char hunks of meat while their womenfolk don't appear to cook or eat at all - is bewildering and full of terror for the young Indian adolescent far from home." "Two different ways of assuaging human hungers, desires and appetites are revealed in this subtle, sharp and poignant story, which moves from the hub of a close-knit Indian household, with its traditional obligations and impositions, its overpowering warmth and sensual response, to the cool centre of an American family, with its freedoms, freezers and paradoxically self-denying self-indulgence. In both there are victims - and survivors."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "227 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Fasting, feasting.".
- catalog identifier "0701168943".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fasting, feasting.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Chatto & Windus,".
- catalog relation "Fasting, feasting.".
- catalog spatial "India Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "India".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "823 21".
- catalog subject "East Indian students United States Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Families India Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PR9499.3.D465 F37 1999".
- catalog title "Fasting, feasting.".
- catalog type "Bildungsromans. gsafd".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction.".
- catalog type "text".