Sushi Das

Deranged Marriage (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

An affectionate, often hilarious, memoir of growing up in London in the 1970s in an Indian household, and avoiding an arranged marriage.

'From the age of fourteen, I was aware my parents expected me to have an arranged marriage, a big Bollywood wedding. There was just one hitch: nobody asked me.'

For Sushi Das, growing up in 1970s London was a culturally messed-up time. Feminists were telling women they could be whatever they wanted, skinheads were yelling at dark-skinned foreigners to go home and The Boomtown Rats were singing about 'Lookin' after Number 1.'

While Sushi was fabricating intricate lies and plotting harebrained schemes to get to the pub and meet 'undesirable elements' - boys - her parents were on the hunt for a respectable Indian doctor for her to marry. But how do you turn your back on centuries of tradition without trashing your family's honour? How do you break free of your parents' stranglehold without casting off their embrace? And how do you explain to your strict dad why there's a boy smoking in his living room and another one lurking in his garden?

Breaking free meant migrating to the other side of the world, only to find that life in Australia had unexpected consequences. This is an intelligent, often hilarious memoir and a fascinating look at one of the oldest traditions of Eastern culture, which aims to join two families in economic prosperity, but whose reality is not always so blissful.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Australia
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781742751573
• Artikelnr.: 56905965

Autorenporträt

Sushi Das was born in India and migrated to Britain with her parents when she was five months old. She moved to Australia in 1991 at the age of 28.

She currently works as a journalist at The Age in Melbourne, where she is a senior writer responsible for writing features and columns. In 1999 she received the Melbourne Press Club Quill award for transport journalism, and in 2005 she received a Quill award for best columnist. She is a committee member of the Melbourne Press Club and a regular newspaper reviewer on ABC TV's News Breakfast programme. She lives in Melbourne with her husband and daughter.