Bitter Sweets: A NovelSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 13 nov 2007 - 368 páginas With 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. |
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... Dhaka , he wasted no time in undertaking an effective reconnaissance . His initial modest plot had been to nurture a business alliance , but he became more ambitious when he dis- covered that a rather more lucrative and permanent alli ...
... Dhaka , the Karims matched his generosity of spirit by offering to pay for all the festivities . Ricky - Rashid had even dismissed the idea of a dowry as barbaric , to Nadim Rub's further joy and Henna's fury - the deal she had ...
... Dhaka . Henna was furious that she was being packaged back to the Bengali backwater she had been persuaded to marry to escape - who had ever heard of an East Pakistani film star ? Everyone knew that only Indians made movies . She ...
... Dhaka office . Aziz had run the estate so successfully that he had diversified , and had also bought some lands in West Pakistan , in the Punjab where some of their distant rela- tives had settled . It was with these relatives that ...
... Dhaka together and I'll ask your father if we can please get married , and we'll live together for ever , and the gossips will have to find something else to talk about . ' ' That sounds nice , but Papa will never say yes , not even for ...