Anita Desai

Anita Desai's new book, hailed as "unsparing, yet tender and funny,"* brilliantly confirms her place among today's foremost Indian writers. FASTING, FEASTING takes on Desai's greatest theme: the intricate, delicate web of family conflict. It tells the moving story of Uma, the plain older daughter of an Indian family, tied to the household of her childhood and tending to her parents' every extravagant demand, and of her younger brother, Arun, across the world in Massachusetts, bewildered by his new life in college and the suburbs, where he lives with the Patton family. Published in Britain to rave reviews, FASTING, FEASTING is "rich in the sensuous atmosphere, elegiac pathos, and bleak comedy at which the author excels" (The Spectator). From the overpowering warmth of Indian culture to the cool center of the American family, it captures the physical -- and emotional -- fasting and feasting that define two distinct cultures.

Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era is the story of the profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The book follows Hugo Baumgartner as he leaves behind Nazi Germany and his Jewish heritage for Calcutta, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war's end.

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Guardian Award The Guardian award can be argued to be as prestigious as the American Newbery Award. Other prestigious British awards for children's literature are the Smarties book prize and the review editor for The Guardian's children's books section. Guardian Award The Guardian Award winners: 2002 Sonya Hartnett, Thursday's Child 2001 Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Seeing Stone (Orion) 2000 Jacqueline Wilson, The Illustrated Mum (Transworld) 1999 Susan Price, The Sterkarm Handshake (Scholastic) 1998 Henrietta Branford, Fire, Bed and Bone (Walker) 1997 Melvin Burgess, Junk (Penguin) 1996 Joint Winners: Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (Scholastic; published in the U.S. as The Golden Compass) Alison Prince, The Sherwood Hero (Macmillan) 1995 Lesley Howarth, MapHead (Walker Books) 1994 Sylvia Waugh, The Mennyms (Julia MacRae) 1993 William Mayne, Low Tide (Cape) 1992 Joint Winners: Rachel Anderson, Paper Faces (Oxford University Press) 1969 Joan Aiken, The Whispering Mountain (Cape) 1968 Alan Garner, The Owl Service (Collins) 1967 Leon Garfield, Devil-in-a-Fog (Constable) The Guardian Award The Guardian Award The Guardian Award is a list of past Guardian Award winners: 2002 Sonya Hartnett, Thursday's Child 2001 Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Seeing Stone (Orion) 2000 Jacqueline Wilson, The Illustrated Mum (Transworld) 1999 Susan Price, The Sterkarm Handshake (Scholastic) 1998 Henrietta Branford, Fire, Bed anita desai.