Volume 47, Number 9 · May 25, 2000
Messages & Silence
By J.M. Coetzee
Fasting, Feasting
by Anita Desai
Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Books, 228 pp., $13.00 (paper)
Diamond Dust
by Anita Desai
Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Books, 207 pp., $12.00 (paper)
In a town in Bihar State in India, on the veranda overlooking their garden, a husband and wife sit side by side, rocking in a sofa-swing, chatting quietly about yesterday evening's bridge game at the club, about tonight's dinner menu, about events at the office (the husband is a prosperous lawyer). To their two young daughters they present a face of such unanimity that they might as well be a single being. MamandPapa, their daughters call them: MamaPapa, PapaMama.
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