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FASTING, FEASTING

Contemporary Fiction GCSE

By Anita Desai

Synopsis

Whilst Uma, a plain spinster, lives in India smothered by her overbearing parents, her over-indulged younger brother Arun is studying in Massachusetts. He is bewildered by the freedom and culture he finds in the home of the Patton family.

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Narrator Hazel Douglas
Length 7hrs 45mins
Catalogue No. 5757
Publisher Chatto & Windus
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