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Roopa Farooki

The Good Children

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'Few novels are life-changing; this one just might be' Daily MailLeaving home is one thing. Surviving is another.1940s Lahore, the Punjab. Two brothers and their two younger sisters are brought up to be 'good children', who do what they're told. Beaten and browbeaten by their manipulative mother, to study, honour and obey. Sully, damaged and brilliant, Jakie, irreverent and passionate. Cynical Mae and soft-hearted Lana, outshone and too easily dismissed.The boys escape their repressive home to study medicine abroad, abandoning their sisters to their mother and marriages. Sully falls in love with an unsuitable Indian girl in the States; Jakie… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7553-8343-6
  • EAN: 9780755383436
  • Produktnummer: 15306105
  • Verlag: Headline Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 416 S.
  • Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.4 cm x D3.1 cm 548 g
  • Gewicht: 548
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


Roopa Farooki was born in Lahore in Pakistan and brought up in London. She graduated from New College, Oxford and worked in advertising before turning to write fiction. Roopa now lives in south-east England and south-west France with her husband, twin girls and two sons. Bitter Sweets, her first novel, was nominated for the Orange Award for New Writers 2007. Roopa`s novels have been published internationally and translated into a dozen languages.

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