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To mark Oxfam's 50th anniversary, Virago and Oxfam present an anthology of international writers on food, with contributions from, among others, Maeve Binchy, Germaine Greer, Margaret Drabble, Attia Hosain and Maxine Hong Kingston. The 20 well-known women writers explore the nuances of love, nurturing, festivities, family and social bonds that people associate with growing, cooking and eating food through a mixture of autobiography, fiction, poetry and polemic. A photograph of each author introduces her piece and a favourite completes it. The book is also interspersed throughout with Worldwide Food Facts.

"Sunlight on a Broken Column, first published in 1961, is a monumental, autobiographical novel, set against the background of Indian Partition. Laila, orphaned daughter of a distinguished Muslim family, is brought up in her grandfather's traditional household by her aunts, who keep purdah. At fifteen she moves to the home of a 'liberal' but autocratic uncle in Lucknow. Here, during the 1930s, as the struggle for Indian independence sharpens, Laila is surrounded by relatives and university friends caught up in politics. Laila is unable to commit herself to any cause: her own fight for independence is a struggle against the claustrophobia of traditional life, from which she can only break away when she falls in love with a man whom her family has not chosen for her. With its stunning evocation of India, its political insight and unsentimental understanding of the human heart, Sunlight on a Broken Column is a classic of Muslim life."--Provided by publisher