by Anita Desai · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420644257
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«Ayuno, festín» is the novel by Anita Desai, published in 2000 by Alianza in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Uma, the eldest daughter destined to care for her parents, and Arun, the youngest sent to study in Boston. With irony and melancholy, Anita Desai portrays a middle-class Hindu family divided between Western modernity and tradition, and denounces the secondary role of women in India.
The translation is by Gian Castelli and the book belongs to the Alianza Literaria collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in India, gender roles and the clash between cultures.
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.
