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Synopsis
In 1950s Bengal, Henna Rub, a precocious, wayward teenager, brings off a brilliant marriage to a wealthy romantic, Ricky Karim, trapping him with a web of lies that she has spun with her wheeler-dealer father.
And so on his wedding night, believing himself married to an educated, sonnet-reading, tennis-playing soul mate, Ricky is horrified to discover that his new bride is in fact a lazy, illiterate, shopkeeper's daughter.
As Ricky and Henna uneasily tolerate their loveless marriage of convenience, the way is paved for a future of double lives and complicit deception – an unspoken family tradition that is inherited by their daughter Shona, who elopes with her secret love to live above a subcontinental sweet shop in 1980s South London.
But two decades later, with her own children grown, it is Shona who is forced to discover unpalatable truths about her loved ones, and come to terms with the lies which superficially hold the three generations of her family together . . . and which are really keeping them apart.
`A major fiction debut…both commercial and literary…Charmingly entertaining on the one hand, with serious points to make about human behaviour on the other’ Publishing News
`Combining the cultural heritage of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane with the intimate humour of family life in Roddy Doyle’s novels, Farooki explores complex and sensitive issues of ethnic difference, the values of family and attitudes to relationships in an enlightening and tender way’ Easy Living
`A funny and moving debut’ Bella
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Roopa Farooki was born in Lahore in Pakistan, and brought up in London. She graduated from New College, Oxford in 1995 and worked in advertising before turning to write fiction. Her debut novel Bitter Sweets was shortlisted for the 2007 Orange New Writers Award. She now lives in south-west France with her husband and two young sons.
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Bitter Sweets
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Macmillan Children's Books, 2007
ISBN 10: 0330450034
ISBN 13: 9780330450034
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Seller: Hamelyn, Madrid, M, Spain
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Condition: As New. : En la Bengala de los años 50, Henna Rub, una adolescente precoz y rebelde, lleva a cabo un brillante matrimonio con un rico romántico, Ricky Karim, atrapándolo con una red de mentiras que ha tejido con su padre, un negociante. Así, en su noche de bodas, creyendo estar casado con un alma gemela educada, lectora de sonetos y jugadora de tenis, Ricky se horroriza al descubrir que su nueva esposa es en realidad una hija de tendero perezosa e iletrada. A medida que Ricky y Henna toleran a regañadientes su matrimonio de conveniencia sin amor, se allana el camino para un futuro de dobles vidas y engaños cómplices, una tradición familiar tácita que hereda su hija Shona, que se fuga con su amor secreto para vivir encima de una dulcería subcontinental en el sur de Londres de los años 80. Pero dos décadas después, con sus propios hijos ya mayores, es Shona quien se ve obligada a descubrir verdades desagradables sobre sus seres queridos y a aceptar las mentiras que mantienen unidas superficialmente a las tres generaciones de su familia. y que en realidad las están separando. EAN: 9780330450034 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Bitter Sweets Autor: Roopa Farooki Editorial: Macmillan Children's Books Idioma: en Páginas: 368 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2024-02-27-477beeef
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Seller: Bookbot, Prague, Czech Republic
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Softcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten. V tomto fascinujicim prvnim romanu o destruktivnich lzich, ktere si navzajem rika tri generace imigrantu z pakistansko-bangladesske rodiny, Roopa Farooki prinasi novy hlas do literarniho sveta. Henna Rub je nadana teenagerka, jejiz podnikavy otec nikdy nezmeska obchodni prilezitost, a jeji okazaly snatek s bohatym romantikem Ricky-Rashidem Karimem je dosazen odvaznou siti lzi. Ricky se dozvi pravdu o sve svudne neveste, ale cesta je jiz pripravena pro budoucnost plnou dvojiho zivota a klamu - rodinne rysy, ktere se prirozene prenesou napric generacemi a vytvori instinktivni a nevyslovenou tradici. I jako dite nachazi jejich dcera Shona, sama pocata na lzi a narozena v dome lharu, vypraveni lzi stejne snadne jako abecedu. O mnoho let pozdeji, zijici nad tovarnou v Tooting Bec v jiznim Londyne, je to Shona, kdo je nucen odhalit nepredstavitelne pravdy o svych blizkych a vyrovnat se s tim, co na povrchu drzi jeji rodinu pohromade - a take je od sebe oddeluje - napric geografickou, emocionalni a kulturni vzdalenosti. Roopa Farooki vytvorila inteligentni, poutavy a emocionalne silny indicky rodinny epos, ktery s vami zustane dlouho pote, co prectete posledni stranku. Seller Inventory # 09ad7a8f-77de-4926-8a9d-6481dffb1c00
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