num_pages: 386
description:  In this one-of-a-kind retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan Alys Binat has sworn never to marryuntil 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 wont 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 Alyss lovely older sister Jena catches the eye of Fahad Bungles Bingla the wildly successfuland singleentrepreneur. But Bungless 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 proposaland Alys begins to realize that Darsees brusque manner may be hiding a very different man from the one she saw at first glance. Told with wry wit and colorful prose Unmarriageable is a charming update on Jane Austens beloved novel and an exhilarating exploration of love marriage class and sisterhood.
language: English
title: Unmarriageable
publisher: Ballantine Books