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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846880300 ISBN 13: 9781846880308

Publisher: Alma Books Ltd

Synopsis

In this hilarious, provocative, and highly topical story of food, love, and Islam, Anthony McCarten exposes the flaws inherent to a 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, she walks 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 pack of tarts into her purse without paying. Obviously, the management sees it differently, and Tracy is fired 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Anthony McCarten is the author of Death of a Superhero and Spinners. He has also written 12 stage plays, including the worldwide success Ladies’ Night, which won France’s Molière Prize.

Review:

"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

"Everyone who reads McCarten’s generous, humane, funny, and moving novel will come away enriched."  Timothy Mo, author, The Redundancy of Courage

"Anthony McCarten dares to speak of English multiculturalism in the satirical tongue that most native writers keep mute."  The Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
• ISBN 10: 1846880300
• ISBN 13: 9781846880308
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 445