Fasting, Feasting (Record no. 1431216)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250529163305.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9788184000580 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | CSL |
| Transcribing agency | CSL |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Source of code | eng |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 084 ## - COLON CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | O_,3N37,F Q9 |
| Assigning agency | CSL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Desai, Anita |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Fasting, Feasting |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Gurugram: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Penguin Random House, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1999. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xi, 231p. |
| Other physical details | : ill. |
| Dimensions | ; 20 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | A wonderful novel in two parts, moving from the heart of a close-knit Indian household, with its restrictions and prejuices, its noisy warmth and sensual appreciation of food, to the cool centre of an American family, with its freedom and strangely self-denying attitudes to eating. In both it is ultimately the women who suffer, whether, paradoxically, from a surfeit of feasting and family life in India, or from self-denial and starvation in the US. or both. Uma, the plain, older daughter still lives at home, frustrated in her attempts to escape and make a life for herself. Her Indian family is difficult , demanding but mostly, good hearted. Despite her disappointments, Uma comes through as the survivor, avoiding an unfulfilling marriage, liek her sister's or a suicidal one, like that arranged for her pretty cousin. And in America, where young Arun goes as a student, men in the suburbs char hunks of bleeding meat while the women don't appear to cook or eat at all - seems bewildering and terriying to the young Indian adolescent far from home. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Fiction |
| Form subdivision | Women-India |
| General subdivision | Families-India- Social life and customs |
| 9 (RLIN) | 811090 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Colon Classification (CC) |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Koha item type | General Books |
| Classification part | O_,3N37,F Q9 |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Colon Classification (CC) | Central Science Library | Central Science Library | 2025-03-05 | N R Book Distributors | O_,3N37,F Q9 | SL1656344 | 2025-05-29 | 2025-05-29 | General Books |