Unarranged Marriage

Bali Rai

ISBN 10: 0552547344 / ISBN 13: 9780552547345

Editore: Corgi (edition UK ed.), 2001

It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Codice articolo 0552547344-11-1

Riassunto:

MANNY WANTS TO BE A FOOTBALLER. OR A POP STAR. OR WRITE A BESTSELLER. HE DOESN'T WANT TO GET MARRIED... 'Harry and Ranjit were waiting for me - waiting to take me to Derby, to a wedding. My wedding. A wedding that I hadn't asked for, that I didn't want. To a girl who I didn't know... If they had bothered to open their eyes, they would have seen me: seventeen, angry, upset but determined - determined to do my own thing, to choose my own path in life...' Set partly in the UK and partly in the Punjab region of India, this is a fresh, bitingly perceptive and totally up-to-the-minute look at one young man's fight to free himself from family expectations and to be himself, free to dance to his own tune.

Recensione: "Any teenager under pressure from his or her parents to conform will enjoy this novel" (Guardian)

"Rai has an unselfconscious style and a dry sense of the ridiculous . . . An appealing subversive edge" (TES)

"Absorbing and engaging . . . A highly readable debut from Bali Rai that teenagers of any culture will identify with" (Observer)

"Energetically and pacily written . . . There is a vitality and freshness about Rai's writing that engages the reader . . . An intriguing debut that promises well for the future" (Books for Keeps)

"Brilliant" (Amanda Craig The Times)

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Titolo: Unarranged Marriage
Casa editrice: Corgi (edition UK ed.)
Data di pubblicazione: 2001
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
Edizione: UK ed.