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Unmarriageable : a novel
- Title
- Unmarriageable : a novel / Soniah Kamal.
- Author
- Kamal, Soniah
- Publication
- New York : Ballantine Books, 2019.
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-2797 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 342 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In this retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan, Alys Binat has sworn never to marry--until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider. A scandal and vicious rumor in the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages, but Alys, the second and most practical of the five Binat daughters, has found happiness teaching English literature to schoolgirls. Knowing that many of her students won't make it to graduation before dropping out to marry and start having children, Alys teaches them about Jane Austen and her other literary heroes and hopes to inspire them to dream of more. When an invitation arrives to the biggest wedding their small town has seen in years, Mrs. Binat excitedly sets to work preparing her daughters to fish for eligible--and rich--bachelors, certain that their luck is about to change. On the first night of the festivities, Alys's lovely older sister, Jena, catches the eye of one of the most eligible bachelors. But his friend Valentine Darsee is clearly unimpressed by the Binat family. Alys accidentally overhears his unflattering assessment of her, and quickly dismisses him and his snobbish ways. But as the days of lavish wedding parties unfold, the Binats wait breathlessly to see if Jena will land a proposal--and Alys begins to realize that Darsee's brusque manner may be hiding a very different man from the one she saw at first glance"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Romance fiction.
- Fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-338).
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2797
- ISBN
- 9781524799717
- 1524799718
- 198481740X
- 9781984817402
- 9781524799724 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018036398
- OCLC
- 1032354337
- Author
- Kamal, Soniah, author.
- Title
- Unmarriageable : a novel / Soniah Kamal.
- Publisher
- New York : Ballantine Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-338).
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-2797