Fasting, Feasting
by Anita DesaiAvailable
Short-listed for the 1999 Booker Prize Uma, the plain, spinster daughter of an Indian family is trapped at home, smothered by her parents and their traditions. Her younger sister, Aruna, makes a...
Short-listed for the 1999 Booker Prize Uma, the plain, spinster daughter of an Indian family is trapped at home, smothered by her parents and their traditions. Her younger sister, Aruna, makes a...
Winner of the 1982 Guardian Award for children's fiction, The Village by the Sea is a survival story by the novelist Anita Desai