The Unmarriageable Man
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Unmarriageable Man
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Author : ASHOK. FERREY
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Enterprise
Release Date : 2021-08
Unmarriageable Man written by ASHOK. FERREY and has been published by Penguin Enterprise this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08 with categories.
Sanjay de Silva lives in Colombo, under the thumb of a controlling Sri Lankan father, having lost his English mother at an early age. When his father is diagnosed with cancer, he feels the ground shifting under his feet, the balance of power realigning. Though it is something he has dreamed of all his life, he is uneasy when it happens. Learning that he is entitled to live in England-thanks to his half-English parentage-he arrives in south London. It is 1980, the start of the glorious blue-rinsed Thatcher years, when every girl looks like Princess Diana but not every boy looks like Prince Charles. He meets and falls in love with a fellow Sri Lankan, Janine, who is old enough to be his mother and famous within the acid-tongued Sri Lankan community as 'a hooker of the very highest class, with royal connections'. Sanjay manages to buy an old wreck of a house in Brixton and succeeds, against all odds, in converting it into two flats. But all is not well with that house. At night there are voices . . . This is the story of south London's first Asian builder who in eight years developed and sold eighty-four flats, cashing in his winnings just before the crash of 1988. But at its heart it is about grief: how each of us copes in our inimitable way with the hidden mysteries of family and the loss of loved ones. Because, as Sanjay is about to find out, grief is only the transmutation of love, of the very same chemical composition-liquid, undistilled-the one inevitably turning to the other like ice to water.
Unmarriageable
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Author : Soniah Kamal
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2019-01-22
Unmarriageable written by Soniah Kamal and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-22 with Fiction categories.
“This inventive retelling of Pride and Prejudice charms.”—People “A fun, page-turning romp and a thought-provoking look at the class-obsessed strata of Pakistani society.”—NPR Alys Binat has sworn never to marry—until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider. A scandal and vicious rumor concerning the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages, but Alys, the second and most practical of the five Binat daughters, has found happiness teaching English literature to schoolgirls. Knowing that many of her students won’t make it to graduation before dropping out to marry and have children, Alys teaches them about Jane Austen and her other literary heroes and hopes to inspire the girls to dream of more. When an invitation arrives to the biggest wedding their small town has seen in years, Mrs. Binat, certain that their luck is about to change, excitedly sets to work preparing her daughters to fish for rich, eligible bachelors. On the first night of the festivities, Alys’s lovely older sister, Jena, catches the eye of Fahad “Bungles” Bingla, the wildly successful—and single—entrepreneur. But Bungles’s friend Valentine Darsee is clearly unimpressed by the Binat family. Alys accidentally overhears his unflattering assessment of her and quickly dismisses him and his snobbish ways. As the days of lavish wedding parties unfold, the Binats wait breathlessly to see if Jena will land a proposal—and Alys begins to realize that Darsee’s brusque manner may be hiding a very different man from the one she saw at first glance. Told with wry wit and colorful prose, Unmarriageable is a charming update on Jane Austen’s beloved novel and an exhilarating exploration of love, marriage, class, and sisterhood. Praise for Unmarriageable “Delightful . . . Unmarriageable introduces readers to a rich Muslim culture. . . . [Kamal] observes family dramas with a satiric eye and treats readers to sparkling descriptions of a days-long wedding ceremony, with its high-fashion pageantry and higher social stakes.”—Star Tribune “Thoroughly charming.”—New York Post “[A] funny, sometimes romantic, often thought-provoking glimpse into Pakistani culture, one which adroitly illustrates the double standards women face when navigating sex, love, and marriage. This is a must-read for devout Austenites.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Colpetty People
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Author : Ashok Ferry
language : en
Publisher: Random House India
Release Date : 2017-04-17
Colpetty People written by Ashok Ferry and has been published by Random House India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-17 with Fiction categories.
In this extraordinary debut, Ashok Ferry chronicles, in a gently probing voice, the journeys of characters seeking something beyond the barriers of nations and generations. His tales of social-climbing Sri Lankans, of the pathos of immigration, of rich people with poor taste, of ice-cream karma, of innocent love, eternity, and more take us to Colombo’s nouveau riche, hoity-toity returnees, ladies with buttery skin and square fingernails, old-fashioned aristocrats, and the poor mortals trapped between them. Ferry’s stories comprise characters that are ‘serious and fine and upstanding, and infinitely dull’, but also others like young John-John, who loses his childhood somewhere ‘high up in the air between Asmara and Rome’; the maid, Agnes of God, whose mango-sucking teeth ‘fly out at you like bats out of the mouth of a cave’; Ashoka, the immigrant who embodies his Sri Lankan identity only on the bus ride between home and work; and Professor Jayaweera who finds sterile freedoms caged in the ‘unbending, straight lines of Western Justice’. Absurd, sad, scathing and generous, but mostly wickedly funny, Colpetty People presents modern Sri Lankans as they navigate worlds between Ceylon and the West.
An Excess Male
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Author : Maggie Shen King
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2017-09-12
An Excess Male written by Maggie Shen King and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-12 with Fiction categories.
One of the Washington Posts' "The 5 best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2017"! James Tiptree, Jr Literary Award Honor List A B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog "Best SFF of 2017" pick! A Kirkus "Best of the Best!" of 2017 Honorable Mention From debut author Maggie Shen King, An Excess Male is the chilling dystopian tale of politics, inequality, marriage, love, and rebellion, set in a near-future China, that further explores the themes of the classics The Handmaid's Tale and When She Woke. Under the One Child Policy, everyone plotted to have a son. Now 40 million of them can't find wives.none noneChina’s One Child Policy and its cultural preference for male heirs have created a society overrun by 40 million unmarriageable men. By the year 2030, more than twenty-five percent of men in their late thirties will not have a family of their own. An Excess Male is one such leftover man’s quest for love and family under a State that seeks to glorify its past mistakes and impose order through authoritarian measures, reinvigorated Communist ideals, and social engineering. Wei-guo holds fast to the belief that as long as he continues to improve himself, his small business, and in turn, his country, his chance at love will come. He finally saves up the dowry required to enter matchmaking talks at the lowest rung as a third husband—the maximum allowed by law. Only a single family—one harboring an illegal spouse—shows interest, yet with May-ling and her two husbands, Wei-guo feels seen, heard, and connected to like never before. But everyone and everything—walls, streetlights, garbage cans—are listening, and men, excess or not, are dispensable to the State. Wei-guo must reach a new understanding of patriotism and test the limits of his love and his resolve in order to save himself and this family he has come to hold dear. In Maggie Shen King’s startling and beautiful debut, An Excess Male looks to explore the intersection of marriage, family, gender, and state in an all-too-plausible future.
The Deserted Heart
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Author : Dragonblade Publishing
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2018-12-07
The Deserted Heart written by Dragonblade Publishing and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-07 with categories.
Unmarriageable? Or simply unusual?There can only be one reason for the proud Duke of Alvan's proposed visit to Audley Park. He means to offer for Lord Overton's beautiful daughter, Thomasina, thus saving the family's waning fortune. In the midst of the hectic preparations for his arrival, Overton's least marriageable daughter Charlotte remembers to collect her young brothers from school for the holidays. When fog forces them to spend the night at the Hart Inn, they are astonished to find the house deserted, save for one other enigmatic traveler who deals most capably with armed intruders. Drawn to their unconventional new friend, Charlotte enlists his help to solve the mystery. Amidst the upheaval of the duke's visit, to say nothing of the chaos caused by Charlotte's unmanageable pet terrier, the Hart becomes the focus of nefarious doings, kidnappings and romantic entanglements. For Charlotte is unwise enough to fall hopelessly in love with her sister's intended husband, and the duke hides too many secrets of his own.
The Ceaseless Chatter Of Demons
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Author : Ashok Ferrey
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-12-05
The Ceaseless Chatter Of Demons written by Ashok Ferrey and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Fiction categories.
‘I was born ugly. That’s what my mother always said.’ So begins the story of young Sonny Mahadewala who lives a dual life: between his adoptive England where he lives in eccentric union with a privileged American, and the mixed bliss of the Mahadewala Walauwa, the big house on the mountain belonging to his father’s family in Kandy— the ancient capital of Sri Lanka—where he has both cachet and awful memories. For Sonny’s mother, a wonderfully maleficent anti-heroine, is convinced that demons possess this awfully ugly son of hers. Demons and the devil himself are the playing field of this book, whether seated in the draughty chapels of Oxford or roaming the Kandyan countryside and, through their clever interplay, they speak of larger horrors with able grace. Who is utterly good or utterly evil—and who, indeed, is the devil?
With Love In Sight
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Author : Christina Britton
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Books
Release Date : 2018-03-27
With Love In Sight written by Christina Britton and has been published by Diversion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-27 with Fiction categories.
A case of mistaken identity brings together a shy young spinster and a reckless rake in this sexy Regency romance by the award-winning author. With her London Season come and gone, desperately shy Imogen Duncan is a confirmed spinster at twenty-six. Now she must look on as her younger sister Mariah begins her own Season with her choice of handsome suitors. It is an exercise in stoic resignation—until an accidental kiss bring her unexpected adventure. Burying his guilt from a decade-old tragedy beneath a life of debauchery, Caleb Masters, Marquess of Willbridge, is content enough to meet willing widows in dark gardens to numb the pain. But he is wholly unprepared when an innocent young woman stumbles into him, turning his superficial world on its head. Drawn to the rogue who mistakenly stole her first kiss, Imogen finds not a suitor, but a friend. Free to be herself for the first time, she discovers a strength in herself she never knew she possessed. But when friendship turns to passion, Imogen will accept nothing less than Caleb’s heart. Can a healing of the past lead to the promise of a future together?
The Denzel Principle
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Author : jimi izrael
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2010-02-16
The Denzel Principle written by jimi izrael and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-16 with Family & Relationships categories.
"Sisters decry the shortage of good men and say there is no way she is settling for less than a good Black man. Not just a good one, but the BEST one: Denzel Washington. She, of course, has no idea what that means, what she wants or what a good Black man truly looks like." –from The Denzel Principle The Denzel Principle is the belief that the perfect man—in the form of Denzel Washington—actually exists off screen and that all Black women can snag a Denzel of their very own. So what does your very own Denzel look like? Well, he's rich but earthy, handsome but not pretty, doting but not docile, tough but vulnerable, political but not radical, passionate but not hysterical, ambitious but not overbearing, well-read but not nerdy, manly but not macho, gentle but not feminine, Black but not militant, sexy but not solicitous, flirtatious but particular...and all that on cue and in proper measure. Award winning reporter and cultural critic, jimi izrael offers to set the record straight – from a regular guy's point of view. The Denzel Principle is straight talk on everything from "Ways Women Can Break the Hold of the Dizzle," "Ways to Attract Mr. Right," to "Ten Reasons to Love Ordinary Black Men" and so much more.
The Veil Polygamy And Divorce
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Author : Shaykh Mohammad Emin Sheikho
language : en
Publisher: ScribeDigital.com
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The Veil Polygamy And Divorce written by Shaykh Mohammad Emin Sheikho and has been published by ScribeDigital.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Facts Of Psychology And Sociology
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Author : Mohammad Amin Sheikho
language : en
Publisher: BookRix
Release Date : 2017-05-03
Facts Of Psychology And Sociology written by Mohammad Amin Sheikho and has been published by BookRix this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-03 with Religion categories.
Praise be to God, the Provider of the worlds, perfect and complete communication with God is through the best of the Creatures, our Prophet Mohammad who was sent as the great Mercy to the worlds and also through his family, his companions and anyone who follows his guidance till the Day of Resurrection. After that: Everything in this universe has a fact, which can be recognized through a constant and a serious contemplation... The most important thing for you as a creature is to know your Creator the Almighty God and communicate with Him. The easier way of approaching that is through His Envoy (cpth) and the (Holy Qur'an) which was sent down by Allah, wherein man can find the entire truth, by applying Al’lah’s Word the human reaches the spiritual perfection rank and be overwhelmed with the Godly Light, where he becomes of insight-eyed (enlightened hearted seeing) and knows the Godly purpose of his coming to this worldly life, he also recognizes the great wisdom behind the creation of that spacious universe, knowing that this worldly life is arranged as a school for the human to have a reward and exaltedness by making all his efforts and doing all his deeds during his life seeking only God’s satisfaction, he proceeds in this way sacrificing his wealth, rest and prestige because he knows that such as this behavior brings him God’s favor and reward, therefore you will see all his deeds are full of goodness and humaneness to the creatures, and all his speeches are guidance to guide people to virtue and God’s Perfections. We discuss in this book some facts of the spirit science, some rules which control the spirit and everything that is linked with it, as well as we will discuss some issues which are the subject of many disputes, so we will clarify the truths and put the right rules between your hands, these rules and truths are based on the science and the knowledge of the greatest scientist in the present century; He is the great Eminent scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho (His soul has been sanctified by Allah) who has a great Divine revelation, may you and us benefit from his Holy high, sublime knowledge of the Words of the Almighty God “the Holy Qur'an”.