Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 1999.

"In "Fasting, Feasting" -- the most recent in a series of outstanding fictions -- she returns to a world which is already disappearing and a milieu of which she remains the peerless chronicler... This is a compelling, mature work by India's finest writer in English." -- "Independent"
"A fine showcase for the delicate, distinctive skills of Anita Desai." -- "Sunday Telegraph"
"Desai has a wicked, subtle humour... and her characters are beautifully described." -- "Daily Telegraph"
"Anita Desai is one of Tolstoy's inheritors. Like his, her writing is sensuous, radical and uncannily perceptive... "Fasting, Feasting" is a hypnotically readable story, in language which has the precision of poetry... an ambitious, successful and disturbing novel." -- "The Times"

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