The English Harem - Brossura

McCarten, Anthony

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1846883792 ISBN 13: 9781846883798

Casa editrice: Alma Books, 2015

Riassunto

Supermarket checkout girl Tracy Pringle has a very lively imagination indeed. In front of her, as she blip-blips herself into a daydream, walk past not boring housewives with screaming children or tired office clerks, but the likes of Lord Byron, Lawrence of Arabia and Princess Leia. It comes as no surprise, then, that she turns a blind eye when Her Majesty herself pops a packet of Mr Kipling's Bakewell tarts into her handbag without paying. Obviously, the management sees it differently, and Tracy is given the sack on the spot and forced to find herself another job.

But nothing can prepare her for the new life that awaits her at the Taste of Persia restaurant, where she is flung headlong into a clash of cultures, languages, dinner plates, religions and a rather tricky domestic arrangement...

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Recensione

McCarten's novel hovers between indignant satire and engaging comedy of manners while sounding a clarion call against the bigotry and intolerance in our society --Sunday Times

Anthony McCarten dares to speak of English multiculturalism in the satirical tongue that most native writers keep mute --The Observer

L'autore

Anthony McCarten's debut novel, Spinners, won international acclaim, and was followed by The English Harem and the award winning Death of a Superhero, all three books being translated into many languages. McCarten has also written twelve stage plays, including the worldwide success Ladies' Night, which won France's Molière Prize, the Meilleure Pièce Comique, in 2001. Also a film-maker, he has thrice adapted his own plays or novels into feature films which he directed himself.

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• Editore: Alma Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1846883792
• ISBN 13: 9781846883798
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384