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Shona Karim is in love. When she first sets eyes on Parvez at the age of ten, she knows he is the man of her dreams. Just like her father – tricked into marriage by her shamelessly deceitful mother – she is a hopeless romantic. Years later, lying to themselves and their families, the young lovers elope to start a new life above a sweet shop in south London.
But Shona’s inheritance is one of double lives and complicit deception. As time passes, and her children are born, it appears that she too has dark secrets that are about to be exposed. Can a family built on lies ever shake off its legacy? And can love ever be strong enough to right the wrongs of the past?
‘Combining the cultural heritage of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane with the intimate humour of family life in Roddy Doyle’s novels’ Easy Living
‘Has the right blend of laughter and tears, a Brit-Asian crossover worth putting your feet up for’ She
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It is a richly-charactered story about lies and the damage they can cause within families. --First Post
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Shortlisted for The Orange Award for New Writers 2007
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- PublisherMacmillan Children's Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0330450034
- ISBN 13 9780330450034
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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Condition: Muy bueno. 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 Seguir leyendo BIOGRAFÍA DEL AUTORRoopa 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. Seguir leyendo EAN: 9780330450034 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Título: Bitter SweetsAutor: Roopa Farooki: Editorial: Macmillan Publishers Ltd Formato: Libro de bolsillo. Seller Inventory # Happ-2024-02-27-477beeef
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