{"product_id":"fasting-feasting","title":"Fasting, Feasting","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wonderful novel in two parts, moving from the heart of a close-knit Indian household, with its restrictions and prejudices, its noisy warmth and sensual appreciation of food, to the cool centre of an American family, with its freedom and strangely self-denying attitudes to eating. In both it is ultimately the women who suffer, whether, paradoxically, from a surfeit of feasting and family life in India, or from self-denial and starvation in the US. Or both. Uma, the plain, older daughter still lives at home, frustrated in her attempts to escape and make a life for herself. Her Indian family is difficult, demanding but mostly, good-hearted. Despite her disappointments, Uma comes through as the survivor, avoiding an unfulfilling marriage, like her sister's, or a suicidal one, like that arranged for her pretty cousin. And in America, where young Arun goes as a student, men in the suburbs char hunks of bleeding meat while the women don't appear to cook or eat at all - seems bewildering and terrifying to the young Indian adolescent far from home...\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 129 x 198\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Anita Desai\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780099289630\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePages: 227\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bookhero.ae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46036526203033,"sku":"8RC9780099289630","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/5696\/6297\/files\/271734.jpg?v=1780574246","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.ae\/products\/fasting-feasting","provider":"Dubai - Buy Used\/Second-Hand Books - BookHero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}