Dancing With The Two-Headed Tigress
Author: Biswas, Tina
ISBN: 9780552773232
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Aug 2007
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
Witty and glamorous first novel about an Indian country cousin's visit to her relatives in London, from a young British-Asian author with a sharp comic eye.
Set in England, India and Ireland, a comic tale of fish out of water.
When her boorish father dies, fat, unsophisticated Mousumi is sent from India to her cosmopolitan relations in London. For the glamour of the western world, she leaves behind both her forlorn mother and an amorous shopkeeper.
On arrival, she is met by the Majumdar family: Prakash - a doctor with too much heart, great cook and man-about-the-house; Tuhina - a successful investment banker and indulgent mother; and Darshini - a nonchalant eighteen-year-old, audacious coin-flipper and possessor of ethereal beauty. Such an offbeat household terrifies Mousumi - how will she fit in? Can she meet their high standards? And will she begin to question the life she has known?
A witty social comedy of cultural misunderstanding and people who simply don't get on.
ISBN: 9780552773232
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Aug 2007
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
Witty and glamorous first novel about an Indian country cousin's visit to her relatives in London, from a young British-Asian author with a sharp comic eye.
Set in England, India and Ireland, a comic tale of fish out of water.
When her boorish father dies, fat, unsophisticated Mousumi is sent from India to her cosmopolitan relations in London. For the glamour of the western world, she leaves behind both her forlorn mother and an amorous shopkeeper.
On arrival, she is met by the Majumdar family: Prakash - a doctor with too much heart, great cook and man-about-the-house; Tuhina - a successful investment banker and indulgent mother; and Darshini - a nonchalant eighteen-year-old, audacious coin-flipper and possessor of ethereal beauty. Such an offbeat household terrifies Mousumi - how will she fit in? Can she meet their high standards? And will she begin to question the life she has known?
A witty social comedy of cultural misunderstanding and people who simply don't get on.
