The wish maker
By: Ali Sethi
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: W F Howes
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 583
ISBN-13: 9781407448770
Subjects: Cousins; Fiction; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: "Zaki Shirazi has arrived back in Lahore, Pakistan, to celebrate the wedding of his childhood friend and elder cousin Samar Api to her long sought-after 'Amitabh' - a stand-in for the Bollywood star she always dreamed of marrying. Amidst the flurry of preparations in the house in which he grew up, Zaki can't help but revisit the past - his childhood as a fatherless boy growing up in a household of outspoken women and his and Samar's intertwined journeys from youth to adulthood. Raised to consider themselves 'part of the same litter', Zaki and Samar watched American television together, memorized dialogues from Bollywood movies and attended dangerous protests with Zaki's campaigning, political journalist mother. But as Zaki becomes drawn into Samar's secret life of romantic schemes and lends her his support in trying to orchestrate the future, they both find themselves suffering the consequences."-- Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton.