Hot Water Man - Softcover

Moggach, Deborah

3.4

129 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099479796 ISBN 13: 9780099479796

Publisher: Vintage, 2006

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From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

East is East and West is West...

Fresh from London, Christine and Donald Manley have come to the alien swelter of Karachi: Christine to conceive a child, Donald to sell the Pill for a pharmaceutical company. Among the ex-pats already there is straight-talking Duke Hanson, whose all-American values cannot prevent him falling, then sinking, helplessly in love with a sophisticated Pakistani girl. In the ensuing tangle of Anglo-American-Oriental relations, the strangest things for those who have come out East are revealed in the very people with whom they arrived...

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Fresh from London, Christine and Donald Manley have come to the alien swelter of Karachi. Among the ex-pats already there is straight-talking Duke Hanson, whose all-American values cannot prevent him falling, then sinking, helplessly in love with a sophisticated Pakistani girl. This is the story of the ensuing tangle of Anglo-Oriental relations.

Review:

"Wincingly funny...a tragicomedy of manners and errors. An ambitious book showing Asia through British and American eyes – compassionate, but never sloppy, it notes the flaws and frailties of East and West without mockery" (Daily Mail)

"Entertaining, subtle and intelligent" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Thank God for Deborah Moggach" (Independent)

"No neater entertainment has emerged from the debris of our past on the sub-continent" (Guardian)

"A piece of technical wizardry" (Daily Telegraph)

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