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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... daughter , who constantly missed school and cheeked her tutors , who stole her aunts ' film magazines to pore over the photographs of the movie stars in thrilled girlish detail . She was athletic enough to avoid him whenever he tried to ...
... daughter to read . He discovered she was still illiterate , and almost beat her again - all his dedicated preparation ruined because his lazy harami of a daughter had wilfully chosen to waste her expensive schooling . He stormed ...
... daughter so lovely and gifted that no suitable boy would dare make an appropriate offer for her ; he confessed humbly that he had been guilty of over - educating her . He was worried that she would be an old maid , as she was already ...
... daughter a magnificent wedding in 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 ...
... daughter , a thirteen - year - old child who had married him as a way to skip school and fulfil a schoolgirl fantasy of becoming an actress . Disturbed by the memory of her body , Ricky - Rashid was disgusted by himself for having ...