Stolz und Vorurteil im modernen Pakistan

ist der Untertitel meines neuen Buches.

 

Gestern Nachmittag habe ich das Buch über die Herstellung von Büchern ausgelesen, es war sehr interessant, vor allem aus historischer Sicht. Ein ganz tolles Buch, das ich irgendwann gerne nochmal lesen würde.

 

Heute in der Straßenbahn habe ich dann mit einer "Neuerzählung" von Jane Austen's Stolz und Vorurteil begonnen, das im heutigen Pakistan spielt. Ich habe über 70 Seiten gelesen und es ist leicht und amüsant zu lesen. Offensichtlich ist Pakistan dann doch wesentlich offener, als wir immer in den Zeitungen lesen.

 

Mein neues Buch:

Sonia KAMAL
Unmarriageable

Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan

Description: In this one-of-a-kind retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan, Alys Binat has sworn never to marry—until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider.

A scandal and vicious rumor concerning the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages, but Alys, the second and most practical of the five Binat daughters, has found happiness teaching English literature to schoolgirls. Knowing that many of her students won’t make it to graduation before dropping out to marry and have children, Alys teaches them about Jane Austen and her other literary heroes and hopes to inspire the girls to dream of more.

When an invitation arrives to the biggest wedding their small town has seen in years, Mrs. Binat, certain that their luck is about to change, excitedly sets to work preparing her daughters to fish for rich, eligible bachelors. On the first night of the festivities, Alys’s lovely older sister, Jena, catches the eye of Fahad “Bungles” Bingla, the wildly successful—and single—entrepreneur. But Bungles’s friend Valentine Darsee is clearly unimpressed by the Binat family. Alys accidentally overhears his unflattering assessment of her and quickly dismisses him and his snobbish ways. As the days of lavish wedding parties unfold, the Binats wait breathlessly to see if Jena will land a proposal—and Alys begins to realize that Darsee’s brusque manner may be hiding a very different man from the one she saw at first glance.

Told with a wry wit and colorful prose, Unmarriageable is a charming update on Jane Austen’s beloved novel, and an exhilarating exploration of love, marriage, class, and sisterhood.