Roopa Farooki, Author . St. Martin’s $24.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-312-36052-8
This rollicking debut from former London ad exec Farooki weaves “an audacious network of lies as elaborate and brazen as the golden embroidery on [a] scarlet wedding sari.” Henna, an illiterate 13-year-old Calcutta shopkeeper’s...
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Roopa Farooki, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-312-37556-0
Aspirations and family ties play out across three generations of the Khalil family in Farooki's fine new novel (after Bitter Sweets
). Lucky Khalil is a talented young soccer player with his sights set on taking the World Cup home for England....
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Roopa Farooki, Author . St. Martin's $19.99 (259p) ISBN 978-0-312-57790-2
In this compelling tale, novelist Farooki (Bitter Sweets
) follows Bengali doctor Aruna Ahmed Jones, who has impulsively married a British physician, hoping to forget a tragic romance with her old friend Ejaz “Jazz” Ahsan, who she left...
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Roopa Farooki, St. Martin's, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-57789-6
Farooki's moving third novel (after Corner Shop) is told from the perspective of London-born siblings still coping with the death of their unmarried mother after five years. At 23, Asif Murphy has become the reluctant head of the family that...
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