The English Harem by Anthony Mccarten
In this hilarious, provocative and highly topical story of food, love and Islam, Anthony McCarten exposes the flaws inherent to our multicultural society, and explores the nature of racism from a startlingly original angle.Supermarket checkout girl Tracy Pringle has a very lively imagination indeed. In front of her, as she blip-blips herself into a daydream, walk past not boring housewives with screaming children or tired office clerks, but the likes of Lord Byron, Lawrence of Arabia and Princess Leia. It comes as no surprise, then, that she turns a blind eye when Her Majesty herself pops a packet of Mr Kipling's Bakewell tarts into her handbag without paying. Obviously, the management sees it differently, and Tracy is given the sack on the spot and forced to find herself another job. But nothing can prepare her for the new life that awaits her at the Taste of Persia restaurant, where she is flung headlong into a clash of cultures, languages, dinner plates, religions and a rather tricky domestic arrangement...
"Everyone who reads McCarten's generous, humane, funny, and moving novel will come away enriched" - Timothy Mo"McCarten's novel hovers between indignant satire and engaging comedy of manners while sounding a clarion call against the bigotry and intolerance in our society" Sunday Times "Anthony McCarten dares to speak of English multiculturalism in the satirical tongue that most native writers keep mute" The Observer
The English Harem and Death of a Superhero were both published by Alma in 2006. McCarten has also written twelve stage plays, including the worldwide success Ladies' Night, which won France's Moliere Prize in 2001. His novel Spinners will be published by Alma in Spring 2008.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846880636 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846880637 |
| Title | The English Harem |
| Author | Anthony Mccarten |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Alma Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-03-20 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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