BEAUTY - Softcover

SELBOURNE, RAPHAEL

3,56

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0955647673 ISBN 13: 9780955647673

Verlag: Tindal Street, 2009

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Selbourne brilliantly plays out a comedy of conflicting cultural and class expectations, repeatedly confounding reader's expectations. Through Beauty herself, he gives the tale of the innocent abroad an original twist * Financial Times * Selbourne writes convincingly both of Beauty's Bengali household and Mark's working-class world of casual sex, pubs and hard manual labour. This first novel is also very funny * Independent * Selbourne uses Beauty's naive but moral vision to show us our own excesses of indifference, ugliness, drunkenness, sex consumption and much besides. Black and white it isn't, despite the mixed race context * Times * Shocking, explosive and tender - I could not put it down * Maggie Gee *

Rese�a del editor:

Beauty - in both name and appearance - is a twenty-year-old Bangladeshi, back in
England having disgraced her family by fleeing an abusive arranged marriage. Forced onto
the jobseeker's treadmill and under extreme domestic pressure, she cracks and runs away.
Her encounters with officialdom, fellow claimants, and strangers in the city streets,
complicated by the restrictions and comfort of her language and culture, place her at the
mercy of such unlikely helpers as Mark, a friendly, Staffordshire bull terrier-breeding exoffender,
and Peter, a middle-class underachiever on the rebound from a bitter relationship.
With determination and good humour, Beauty moves ever closer to making her choice
between family duty and personal freedom. All the while, however, her brothers are
searching for her across town. Can she make the choice herself, before she's forced to?
A sharply rendered, compassionate and challenging portrait of a fragmented, multicultural
urban England.

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