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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... troubles of partition in the late forties . When other Muslim families had been forced to hurriedly abandon their homes and belongings as they made for West or East Pakistan , the Karim clan had simply I 16 f Roopa Farooki.
... Pakistan . Although the family had the trappings of wealth , Rashid saw that they were on the verge of bankruptcy . How ... Pakistani film star ? Everyone knew that only Indians made movies . She started working on a new plan , for when ...
... Pakistan , in the Punjab where some of their distant rela- tives had settled . It was with these relatives that Rashid sent Henna and Shona to stay in 1971 when civil war broke out over Bangladeshi Independence . Henna had hoped that ...
... Pakistani girl with a decent dowry ? In turn , Shona knew that her mother and father disapproved of ' Cousin ' Parvez , as he was loosely described , and that if they knew her reason for going to university in Karachi was simply to be ...
... Pakistan International Airlines blanket , and enjoyed the simple intimacy of being able to watch him sleep , his eyelashes fanned against his cheek , his breath deepening but his face remaining poised , and his jaw firm , as though ...