by Anita Desai · Gradiva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789726627111
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«O Jejum e a Festa» is the novel by Anita Desai published by Gradiva in paperback (240 pages, in Portuguese).
Uma, the eldest daughter, cannot detach herself from the family home and remains trapped with overprotective parents who act like gods. Meanwhile, her sister Aruna makes a «good» marriage and her brother Arun, the heir, concentrates the family's expectations. Among cousins and aunts, such as the indecisive Ramu and the beautiful and tragic Anamika, the novel explores tradition, individual freedom and social pressures in the context of India.
Its original title is Fasting, Feasting. The novel was nominated for the Booker Prize and made the longlist for the Orange Prize.
Aimed at readers of contemporary fiction interested in India, family relationships and the conflict between tradition and personal independence.
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.
