Nominee · The Booker Prize 1999
Fasting, Feasting
by Anita Desai
1999 novel by Anita Desai
Uma, the older daughter of an Indian family, lives in relative poverty with her parents, while her younger brother Arun lives in America; both tending to their demanding parents.
Synopsis from Open Library.
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