Dimensions
153 x 234 x 25mm
Amina Mazid is twenty-four when she leaves Bangladesh for Rochester, New York, and for George Stillman, the husband who met and wooed her online. It's a twenty-first-century romance that echoes ancient traditions - the arranged marriages of her home country. And though George falls for Amina because she doesn't 'play games', they will both hide a secret, and vital, part of their lives from each other.
Amina stuggles to find her place in America – as a Muslim woman, an aspiring teacher, a wife with her own desires. But it is only when they put an ocean between them that Amina and George will discover whether they have a future – or if their secrets will tear them apart.
A brilliantly observed, wry and yet deeply moving novel about the exhilarations - and complications - of getting, and staying, wed, The Newlyweds is a tour de force - a novel as rich with misunderstandings as it is with unlikely connections.
'Wise, timely, ripe with humour and complexity. The Newlyweds is one of the most believable love stories of our young century.' Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story
