(Un)arranged Marriage
Author | : Bali Rai |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2011-09-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781446498859 |
ISBN-13 | : 1446498859 |
Rating | : 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.