FASTING, FEASTING By Anita Desai Mariner Books, $13. Apr. 30 - "Fasting, Feasting" is Anita Desai's 12th novel. Considered one of the foremost Indian authors writing in English today, she has been ...

Anita Desai, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (312p) ISBN 978-0-679-43900-4 Desai's exquisite, exotic 10th novel follows well-to-do European newlyweds who, in 1975, embark on a spiritual search in India.

Anita Desai’s modern classic Fasting, Feasting takes as its subject some of society’s most uncomfortable and pathological aspects, and it refuses to redeem them with aesthetic flourish, writes ...

The curtain rises on an elderly Indian couple, swinging gently on their verandah as pigeons coo on the balcony above: the incarnation, you might imagine, of domestic harmony. But just wait till ...

Anita Desai has forsaken India to write a novel about Mexico. ... Fasting, Feasting (1999) and the short stories, Diamond Dust (2000). Three of her novels have been shortlisted for the Booker prize.

Despite Desai’s formidable reputation as one of the great chroniclers of post-Partition India (Clear Light of Day, 1980; Fasting & Feasting, 1999), the narrative opens in San Miguel, Mexico.In ...

Anita Desai, the daughter of a Bengali father and German mother, ... (1995) and “Fasting, Feasting” (1999) — that featured an assortment of strangers in strange lands. ...

Fasting, Feasting Anita Desai Vintage £6.99, pp228 Buy it at BOL 'If we could have chosen a runner-up, we would have given the runner-up award to Anita Desai,' Gerald Kaufman, chair of the judges ...

In 1978, author Anita Desai received the Sahitya Akademi Award for her novel Fire on the Mountain and in 1983 was conferred the Guardian Fiction Prize. Thursday, Jun 19, 2025 New Delhi o C ...