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Love Marriage: A Novel de Monica Ali
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Love Marriage: A Novel (2022 original; edició 2022)

de Monica Ali (Autor)

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"Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father) and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose domineering mother, Helen, is a famous feminist. Though both Yasmin's parents and Joe's mother approve of the marriage, the cultural gulf between them is vast as, it turns out, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. The novel opens as Yasmin, her parents and her brother pile into their car, packed with Indian food prepared by Yasmin's mother, to go to dinner to meet Joe's mother in her elegant townhouse in one of London's poshest neighborhoods. Contrary to all of Yasmin's fears, her unsophisticated and somewhat flamboyant mother is embraced and celebrated by Helen and her friends. Many complications ensue when Yasmin discovers that Joe has had an affair with a co-worker, and Yasmin's ne'er do well brother is banished from the house by her father, and Yasmin's mother moves to Helen's house in protest. Love Marriage is a story of emotionally fraught self-discovery and how the secrets people keep hidden affect their most intimate relationships. Joe hides the exact nature of his promiscuous past; Yasmin's brother and mother keep a monumental secret from their father; Yasmin has a wildly erotic affair of her own; and the story of her parents' love marriage proves to be a cover-up for a dark, tragic history. In the wake of extreme upheaval, Yasmin finds herself, and her life, transformed"--… (més)
Membre:dablackwood
Títol:Love Marriage: A Novel
Autors:Monica Ali (Autor)
Informació:Scribner (2022), 432 pages
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This is a treasure of a book. ❤️ About how we see ourselves and our families - and about how we can totally not really know the people closest to us. ( )
  decaturmamaof2 | Nov 22, 2023 |
When the book opens, Yasmin and Joseph, two young doctors are engaged to be married. Yasmin is worried because she is bringing her parents, very old-fashioned Indian Muslims, to meet Joseph's mother, a radical feminist and public intellectual. Despite her worries, the parents hit it off, but over the next six months before the wedding there are many unexpected changes in family dynamics and events in the lives of the characters, and we are kept wondering through-out whether the wedding will come off.

This is the story of a young man and woman finding their way in life, and a lovely family drama, with lots of humor thrown in. There is also a bit of a "clash of cultures" story here, though not necessarily the cultures you might think of from my description. As in any good novel, by the end, everyone is changed, and you feel you really know these characters.

Recommended.
3 1/2 stars ( )
  arubabookwoman | Dec 11, 2022 |
Een aanstaand arts moet haar verwachtingen bijstellen wanneer ze de vrijgevochten feministische moeder van haar verloofde ontmoet ( )
  huizenga | Nov 19, 2022 |
This novel begins with a dinner to introduce Yasmin's family to the mother of Joe, her fiancé, then expands to look at the two families and Yasmin and Joe's relationship. Yasmin grew up with the story of her parents's love marriage, with her mother's family being wealthy and her father a menial worker who didn't graduate high school until his mid-twenties. He's now a respected doctor living in a quiet part of London, his wife occupies herself with cooking and bargain-hunting. But the details of their love match were never made clear and as Yasmin worries about her own love match, as her family begins to shatter, she wants the whole story. And Joe is seeing a therapist, who is pushing him in a direction he doesn't want to go; looking at his relationship with his (in)famous well-to-do mother. As family issues consume their thoughts and time, as their careers as doctors put another pressure on their emotions and their time, will Joe and Yasmin manage to get married?

Monica Ali is fantastic at pulling at the threads of family and seeing what emerges. Each character, from Yasmin's tense, regimented father to her unemployed and seemingly directionless younger brother, are given time and space to be full characters. Having each chapter follow a different character only works when each character is interesting and fully developed and their story ties in with the larger novel, things Ali pulls off effortlessly. This is an excellent novel and now I need to go back and read the books by this author that I've missed. ( )
  RidgewayGirl | Sep 5, 2022 |
I think my disappointment comes from high expectations. The novel is compulsively readable but it lacks depth and believability. The actions of virtually all the characters are not realistic. That said, it was entertaining and well written. ( )
  ccayne | Aug 9, 2022 |
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"Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father) and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose domineering mother, Helen, is a famous feminist. Though both Yasmin's parents and Joe's mother approve of the marriage, the cultural gulf between them is vast as, it turns out, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. The novel opens as Yasmin, her parents and her brother pile into their car, packed with Indian food prepared by Yasmin's mother, to go to dinner to meet Joe's mother in her elegant townhouse in one of London's poshest neighborhoods. Contrary to all of Yasmin's fears, her unsophisticated and somewhat flamboyant mother is embraced and celebrated by Helen and her friends. Many complications ensue when Yasmin discovers that Joe has had an affair with a co-worker, and Yasmin's ne'er do well brother is banished from the house by her father, and Yasmin's mother moves to Helen's house in protest. Love Marriage is a story of emotionally fraught self-discovery and how the secrets people keep hidden affect their most intimate relationships. Joe hides the exact nature of his promiscuous past; Yasmin's brother and mother keep a monumental secret from their father; Yasmin has a wildly erotic affair of her own; and the story of her parents' love marriage proves to be a cover-up for a dark, tragic history. In the wake of extreme upheaval, Yasmin finds herself, and her life, transformed"--

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