(Un)arranged Marriage
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK
Published:2nd Aug '18
£8.99
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A contemporary, humorous novel about the kind of cross-cultural conflicts felt by many young people today.
Reissued in Penguin's ORIGINALS series of powerful teenage fiction.
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.
This is a highly readable debut from Bali Rai that teenagers of any culture will identify with. * The Guardian *
ISBN: 9780241343067
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm
Weight: 225g
320 pages