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The wedding

Title:

The wedding

Author:

Coovadia, Imraan.

ISBN:

9780312272197

Personal Author:

Coovadia, Imraan.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Picador USA, 2001.

Physical Description:

280 pages ; 22 cm

Abstract:

Ismet Nassim, a clerk from Bombay, impulsively marries a beautiful women he saw standing next to a village well. Ismet soon learns that even after a move to South Africa, his marriage will not be a happy one.

Subject Term:

East Indians -- South Africa -- Fiction.

Weddings -- Fiction.

East Indians. (OCoLC)fst00901060

Weddings. (OCoLC)fst01173328

Geographic Term:

Durban (South Africa) -- Fiction.

Mumbai (India) -- Fiction.

South Africa -- Fiction.

India -- Mumbai. (OCoLC)fst01802300

South Africa. (OCoLC)fst01204616

South Africa -- Durban. (OCoLC)fst01206419

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol054/2001031947.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol042/2001031947.html

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Set in India and South Africa, The Wedding joins Ismet Nassin, a clerk of modest prospects from Bombay, and the village beauty he marries on the very day he spies her from the window of his train. Matrimony happens fast, love lags behind. Khateja is willful, difficult, and misanthropic--in short, highly desirable. Ismet is in for the battle of his life. Based upon the story of his grandparents and his own upbringing in Durban, South Africa, Imraan Coovadia's The Wedding is a brilliantly funny and tender first novel--an alternately poignant and hilarious story about the choices we make and the homes that we build. The Wedding is a witty and wonderful subcontinental version of The Taming of the Shrew .