Bitter Sweets
Nominated for the Orange PrizeWith this spellbinding first novel about the destructive lies three immigrant generations of a Pakistani/Bangladeshi family tell each other, Roopa Farooki adds a fresh new voice to the company of Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri and Arudhati Roy.Henna Rub is a precocious teenager whose wheeler-dealer father never misses a business opportunity and whose sumptuous Calcutta marriage to wealthy romantic Ricky-Rashid Karim is achieved by an audacious network of lies. Ricky will learn the truth about his seductive bride, but the way is already paved for a future of double lives and deception--family traits that will filter n…
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- ISBN: 978-0-312-38206-3
- EAN: 9780312382063
- Produktnummer: 19416055
- Verlag: St. Martins Press-3pl
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.2 cm 511 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 511
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