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Roopa Farooki has crafted an intelligent, engrossing and emotionally powerful Indian family saga that will stay with you long after you've read the last page.
St. Martin's Griffin
October 2008
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Featuring: Henna Rub
384 pages
ISBN: 0312382065
EAN: 9780312382063
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Women's Fiction | Multicultural Fiction
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. Henna Rub is a precocious teenager whose wheeler-dealer
father never misses a business opportunity and whose
sumptuous Calcutta marriage to wealthy romantic Ricky-Rashid
Karim is achieved by an audacious network of lies. Ricky
will learn the truth about his seductive bride, but the way
is already paved for a future of double lives and
deception--family traits that will filter naturally through
the generations, forming an instinctive and unspoken
tradition. Even as a child, their daughter Shona, herself
conceived on a lie and born in a liar's house, finds telling
fibs as easy as ABC. But years later, living above a
sweatshop in South London's Tooting Bec, it is Shona who is
forced to discover unspeakable truths about her loved ones
and come to terms with what superficially holds her family
together--and also keeps them apart--across geographical,
emotional and cultural distance.
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