Handpicked
What is it like to stake everything on a relationship based only on letters?Laila is desperate to escape life in the longhouse in her Malaysian village. Desperate enough to travel alone to Australia to marry Jim, a fruit-picker living in Renmark, South Australia. Jim hasn''t had much luck with women - they''ve always given him a hard time. He pins his hopes on Laila changing all that. Marital bliss, a new life.But when Laila and Jim finally meet, they each discover the reality of the other, and things don''t go as planned. Handpicked is a subtle and sensitive exploration of the world of the mail-order bride. It is also a compelling and finely observed account of expectations and consequences, words and actions, truth and love.
- Författare
- Siew Siang Tay
- ISBN
- 9780730400134
- Språk
- engelska
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2010-01-31
- Förlag
- 4th Estate
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- Epub - Adobe DRM
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