Roopa Farooki
1) Corner shop
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting your heart's desire and the other? Getting it. Fourteen-year-old Lucky Khahlil loves three things: football, Star Wars, and Portia, the girl who works in his grandfather's corner shop. In that order. But Lucky has a destiny - worse than a destiny, he has a dream. He dreams that one day, his lucky left foot will win the World Cup for England. It torments him, because it tastes real, because when...
2) Half life
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
On the morning that changes everything, Aruna Ahmed Jones walks out of her ground-floor Victorian apartment in London wearing only jeans and a t-shirt, carrying nothing more substantial than a handbag, and keeps on walking. Leaving behind the handsome Dr. Patrick Jones, her husband of less than a year, Aruna heads to Heathrow, where she boards a plane bound for Singapore and her old life. Educated and beautiful, Aruna has a desperate need to risk...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Follows the machinations of a Bangladeshi-Pakistani family whose penchant for telling lies shapes the destinies of every member, from Henna, who lies her way into a marriage to a wealthy romantic, to her daughter Shona, who struggles with the superficialties binding her loved ones.