Imraan Coovadia
Set in India and South Africa, ,The Wedding, joins Ismet Nassin, a clerk of modest prospects from Bombay, and Khateja, a 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 misanthropicâ€”in short, highly desirable. Ismet is in for the battle of his life., ,Based upon the story of his grandparents and his own upbringing in Durban, South Africa, Imraan Coovadia has written a brilliantly funny and tender first novelâ€”an alternately poignant and hilarious story about the choices we make and the homes that we build., ,The Wedding, is a witty and wonderful subcontinental, The Taming of the Shrew,.
Fiction,Southern Africa,South Africa,Novels
The Wedding