Freedom to Tango
Michael Wood: Contemporary Indian English novels, 19 April 2001
Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels
by Tabish Khair.
Oxford, 407 pp., £21.50, March 2001,0 19 565296 7 Show More
by Tabish Khair.
Oxford, 407 pp., £21.50, March 2001,
The Death of Vishnu
by Manil Suri.
Bloomsbury, 329 pp., £16.99, February 2001,0 7475 5270 3 Show More
by Manil Suri.
Bloomsbury, 329 pp., £16.99, February 2001,
“... In Anita Desai’s recent novel Fasting, Feasting, there is a delicately framed moment of what looks like reconciliation. An unmarried daughter has seen her last chance of a career and a life independent from the family vanish into the demands of her mother’s real or feigned illness. Feigned, the daughter is sure: the crafty parental stranglehold ... ”
