The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger
From Nell Freudenberger, one of America's most dazzling talents, comes an utterly captivating cross-continental love story Amina Mazid is twenty-four when she leaves Bangladesh for Rochester, New York, and for George Stillman, the husband who met and wooed her online. It's a twenty-first-century romance that echoes ancient traditions - the arranged marriages of her home country. And though George falls for Amina because she doesn't 'play games', they will both hide a secret, and vital, part of their lives from each other. A brilliantly observed, wry and yet deeply moving novel about the exhilerations - and complications - of getting, and staying, wed, The Newlyweds is a tour de force - a novel as rich with misunderstandings as it is with unlikely connections. 'Young writers as ambitious - and as good - as Nell Freudenberger give us reason for hope', New York Times Book Review 'Freudenberg has rare humanity, and talent great enough to command not only a vast landscape of imbalance and misunderstanding, but also a tender sphere of tiny intimacy, hidden yearning...A marvellous book', Kiran Desai, winner of the MAN Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss Nell Freudenberger is the author of the novel The Dissident, (longlisted for the Orange Prize), The Lessons and the story collection Lucky Girls, winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and shortlisted for the Orange New Writers' Prize and a New York Times Book Review Notable Book. She was named a New Yorker '20 Under 40' writer and one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Took off like a rocket, taking me with it * The Times *
A convincing and rather compelling story of a very modern marriage and a real heroine to root for * Daily Mail *
A wonderful, funny, inventive novel that takes you slowly by surprise the more you readHighly recommended * Red (Book of the Month) *
The intrigue and small disappointments of marriage are painstakingly captured. * Psychologies *
A Fresh and modern look at relationships, told with heart. * Elle *
A charming and serious tale of marriage, family and identity. Its prose style is intimate, almost conspiratorial... threading its arm around the reader confidently. The writing is clear and spare... yet Freudenberger's investigation into what makes relationships work... is complex and sophisticated... Freudenberger approaches her subject with great sensitivity, a heavy sense of the seriousness of life - and much wry humour. * Independent on Sunday *
There are some piercing cultural observations... the chapters zip along with purpose and the novel flits effortlessly between the false intimacy of suburban America and the closely knit gossipy communities of Dhaka * Independent *
A powerful sense of empathy, of being able to imagine what it is to be soemone else, to feel what someone else feels -- Mohsin Hamid
Every minute I was away from this book I was longing to be back in the world she created -- Ann Patchett, author of 'State of Wonder'
This classic tale of missed chances, crushing errors of judgment, and scarring sacrifices, all compounded by cultural differences, is perfectly pitched, piercingly funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking * Booklist starred review *
Wise, timely, ripe with humour and complexity, The Newlyweds is one of the most believable love stories of our young century -- Gary Shteyngart, author of 'Super Sad True Love Story'
A convincing and rather compelling story of a very modern marriage and a real heroine to root for * Daily Mail *
A wonderful, funny, inventive novel that takes you slowly by surprise the more you readHighly recommended * Red (Book of the Month) *
The intrigue and small disappointments of marriage are painstakingly captured. * Psychologies *
A Fresh and modern look at relationships, told with heart. * Elle *
A charming and serious tale of marriage, family and identity. Its prose style is intimate, almost conspiratorial... threading its arm around the reader confidently. The writing is clear and spare... yet Freudenberger's investigation into what makes relationships work... is complex and sophisticated... Freudenberger approaches her subject with great sensitivity, a heavy sense of the seriousness of life - and much wry humour. * Independent on Sunday *
There are some piercing cultural observations... the chapters zip along with purpose and the novel flits effortlessly between the false intimacy of suburban America and the closely knit gossipy communities of Dhaka * Independent *
A powerful sense of empathy, of being able to imagine what it is to be soemone else, to feel what someone else feels -- Mohsin Hamid
Every minute I was away from this book I was longing to be back in the world she created -- Ann Patchett, author of 'State of Wonder'
This classic tale of missed chances, crushing errors of judgment, and scarring sacrifices, all compounded by cultural differences, is perfectly pitched, piercingly funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking * Booklist starred review *
Wise, timely, ripe with humour and complexity, The Newlyweds is one of the most believable love stories of our young century -- Gary Shteyngart, author of 'Super Sad True Love Story'
Nell Freudenberger is the author of the novel The Dissident (longlisted for the Orange Prize) and the story collection Lucky Girls, winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and shortlisted for the Orange New Writers' Prize and a New York Times Book Review Notable Book. She was named a New Yorker '20 Under 40' writer and one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241962701 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241962706 |
| Title | The Newlyweds |
| Author | Nell Freudenberger |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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