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2012., Headline Publishing Group Call No: Fic Far Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From privileged beginnings in 1930s Pakistan to poverty and loss in modern-day Europe, this exciting new novel from Roopa Farooki takes us on a breathtaking exploration of one man's struggle to find himself. With each new country, this ultimate immigrant reinvents himself, leaving abandoned careers, wives and children in his wake. But, in his ceaseless search for a true sense of belonging will he lose more than he could ever find?.
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c2014., Adult, Tinder Press/Headline Publishing Group Call No: Fic Far Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A compelling story of discipline and disobedience, punishment and the pursuit of passion. Leaving home is one thing. Surviving is another. 1940s Lahore, the Punjab. Two brothers and their two younger sisters are brought up to be "good children," who do what they're told. Beaten and browbeaten by their manipulative mother, to study, honour and obey. Sully, damaged and brilliant, Jakie, irreverent and passionate. Cynical Mae and soft-hearted Lana, outshone and too easily dismissed. The boys escape their repressive home to study medicine abroad, abandoning their sisters to their mother and marriages.
