Bitter Sweets: A NovelMacmillan + ORM, 13 nov 2007 - 380 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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... knew exactly how to persuade his daughter to go along with him . He caught her hiding at the bottom of their over- grown garden one school day , lying flat on her stomach behind the coconut palms , while she nonchalantly studied ...
... knew she loved . But her tossed - back head and invitation to a kiss had distracted him , and in the ensuing liquorice - induced confusion he had let his baser instincts take over . Intending to apologize , he walked around the bed ...
... black jumble of text for a couple of moments and knowledgeably nodded , before saying in her little - used English , ' Ricky , I Think It's Simply Wonderful . ' ' I knew you'd like it , ' said Ricky J9f Bitter Sweets.
A Novel Roopa Farooki. ' I knew you'd like it , ' said Ricky - Rashid triumphantly . Perhaps tonight would work out after all ; he edged closer to Henna , to take the book out of her hands . But as he saw how she had been holding it ...
... knew that motherhood would succeed where marriage alone could not . She knew self - interestedly that bearing Rashid's child would keep her in her cosseted position , and that once she was a mother , there would be no more forcing her ...