Beauty / Raphael Selbourne.
By: Selbourne, Raphael.
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BookPublisher: Birmingham [U.K.] : Tindal Street Press, 2009Description: 320 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780955647673 (pbk.); 0955647673 (pbk.).Subject(s): Muslim women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- Fiction | Muslim women -- Family relationships -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Muslim women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Unemployment -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Multiculturalism -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- Fiction | Muslim women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- Fiction | Muslim women -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Muslim women -- Great Britain -- Employment -- Fiction | Unemployment -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Multiculturalism -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- FictionDDC classification: 823.92 | [Fic] Summary: Beauty, a twenty-year-old Bangladeshi woman who fled an abusive arranged marriage, searches for a job in the United Kindgom, making friends with ex-offender Mark, who is the type of man she has been raised to fear, and Peter, an underachiever coping with a failed relationship, while struggling to come to terms with her conflicting feelings over her desire for personal freedom and family duty.
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Beauty, a twenty-year-old Bangladeshi woman who fled an abusive arranged marriage, searches for a job in the United Kindgom, making friends with ex-offender Mark, who is the type of man she has been raised to fear, and Peter, an underachiever coping with a failed relationship, while struggling to come to terms with her conflicting feelings over her desire for personal freedom and family duty.
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