by Anita Desai · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070424320
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«Le Jeûne et le Festin» is the novel by Anita Desai, published by Gallimard in paperback (341 pages, in French).
Anita Desai contrasts family life in India with the experience of a young Indian man in the United States. The novel follows Uma, conditioned by suffocating traditions, and Arun, disoriented on an American campus. It portrays cultural clash, identity, and the weight of family.
Anita Desai is an Indian author who resides between New Delhi and the United States. This French edition was published in the Folio collection by Gallimard in 2002.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in family relationships and the cultural clash between India and the United States.
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.
