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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... no more forcing her to stay at the dull books . She would simply hand the child over to the nanny and then start training for her dramatic career in earnest . Lying back on the same four - poster bed on 14 & Roopa Farooki.
... stay in 1971 when civil war broke out over Bangladeshi Independence . Henna had hoped that Lahore would prove ... staying in the Gulberg house , a distant relative of the distant relatives ; he was from Karachi , and filled the house ...
... stayed in the shade of the stairwell and watched Parvez standing out in the beating heat of the full sun , only slightly relieved by a light breeze as he twisted twine around a bamboo cylinder . A glori- ously coloured structure sat ...
... stay- ing with the same thing . Shona dissembled guiltlessly ; she had lied for the past three years in order to keep seeing Parvez , so that the girls thought she spent far too much time holed up at home , and the family thought she ...
... stay in Lon- don , and who had nowhere to stay except with him . After giving them a welcoming cup of comfortingly sweet tea , served with rasgulla and burfi from the shop , he showed Shona to the spare room , and made an excuse to take ...