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by Anita Desai · · libro de bolsillo · 341 pages
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Le Jeûne et le Festin es una novela de Anita Desai, publicada originalmente en inglés como 'Fasting, Feasting' en 1999. La historia explora las vidas contrastantes de dos hermanos, Uma y Arun, y sus experiencias en la India y Estados Unidos. Uma lucha contra las expectativas tradicionales en la India, mientras que Arun enfrenta desafíos de adaptación en un entorno cultural diferente en Estados Unidos. La novela examina temas de identidad, familia y las complejidades de la vida moderna a través de las perspectivas de sus personajes.
Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and the emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Literature. She won the Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea (1983). Her other works include Cry, the Peacock, Voices in the City (1963), Fire on the Mountain (1977) and an anthology of short stories, Games at Twilight (1978). She is on the advisory board of the Lalit Kala Akademi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London. Since 2020 she has been a Companion of Literature.
