The Vague Woman?s Handbook

von Devapriya Roy

352 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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They are bad with directions; they never know when the credit card bill is due. They have perfected the art of turning over a new leaf tomorrow.Meet the vague women in this delightful first novel that doesn't star a woman looking for the right man - because she's already found him! At twenty-two, Sharmila Chatterjee has just married her sweetheart of a few years, Abhimanyu Mishra, a somewhat eccentric if handsome twenty-three-and-a-half year old with obscure academic interests and a small fellowship that never arrives on time.They start a household in a tiny rented flat, learning to fend for themselves in the big, bad and snotty world of south Delhi, with penny-pinching landlords, some romance, and a lot of anxiety. At fifty-two, Indira Sen is not sure just how she meandered to where she finds herself now.A senior government officer and single mother, she lives with her daughter and three opinionated old people in a rambling house, drives a battered car, and has a history of credit-card induced shopaholism. The Vague Woman's Handbook is a story told with equal parts of humour, hysteria and tenderness, about the sparkling friendship between two women as they hurtle through life and its mini-crises while trading secrets in the art of survival.

• Reihe: HarperCollins
• ISBN: 9789350290323
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.03.2011
• Größe: 178 x 111 mm
• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt Ltd