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The Wedding: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Imraan Coovadia
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
List Price: $23.00
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 1893107
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0312272197
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780312272197
ASIN: 0312272197
Publication Date: November 3, 2001
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Product Description
The Wedding joins Ismet Nassin, a clerk of modest prospects from Bombay, and the village beauty he marries on the very day he spies her from the window of his train. Matrimony happens fast, love lags behind. Khateja is willful, difficult, and misanthropicin short, highly desirable. Ismet is in for the battle of his life.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Laugh out loud dialogue February 8, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I picked this book up on a whim at the library. The endless circular tirades between the hapless bridegroom and his wife were hysterical. I read some of it out loud because the rhythms of the language were so inviting. I did begin to flag near the end of the book, but over all, a funny funny story.
 A delightful discovery August 20, 2002
Caught up in coovadia's web of words, I couldn't put the book down. The wedding was funny and moving, which is rare. But rarer still the story is inventive
 Left me Feeling Flat August 15, 2002
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am an avid reader of Indian novels and books about the culture of that great nation, but this one left me feeling flat.
The author never quite made me feel any of his characters - just leaving off when you thought you would invade their psyches.
The ending was terrible - a great disappointment. I was happy to be finished with this book but sad that I had wasted so much time reading it.
charming & funny April 12, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
a very enjoyable and funny read, at times quite touching and charming. wonderful sense of humour: mostly when i read it i was smiling inside.
Sorry, Mr. Coovadia March 12, 2002
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I didn't see this work as a humorous romp, other than the passges describing the familys' sense of urgency to marry off their difficult daughter. I found the characters to be unsympathetic. Toward the end, it just didn't flow...the ending seemed to be rushed and not fleshed out. Perhaps I am overly harsh, but I didn't see this book as an enjoyable read.
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