The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Subtitle: a novel
By: Deborah Moggach
Edition: Random House Trade Paperback edition; Movie Tie-In
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Trade paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780812982428
Copyright date: 2004, 2012
Subjects: Older people; Old age homes; British; Fiction
Other titles: These Foolish Things
Work titles: These foolish things
Description: When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: “Can’t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.” His prayer is seemingly answered when Ravi’s entrepreneurial cousin sets up a retirement home in India, hoping to re-create in Bangalore an elegant lost corner of England. Several retirees are enticed by the promise of indulgent living at a bargain price, but upon arriving, they are dismayed to find that restoration of the once sophisticated hotel has stalled, and that such amenities as water and electricity are . . . infrequent. But what their new life lacks in luxury, they come to find, it’s plentiful in adventure, stunning beauty, and unexpected love.
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Notes: US edition
Table of contents: title: "Originally published under the name These foolish things in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Random House UK, in 2004"; title: T.P. verso.