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Droemer Knaur (31/03/2004)
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At the tender age of eigteeen, Nazneen's life is turned upseide down. After an arranged marriage to a man twenty years her elder she exchanges her Bangladeshi village for a block of flat in London's East End. In this new world, where poor people can be fat and even dogs go on diets, she struggles to make sense of her existence - and to do her duty to her husband. man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance.

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Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you don't notice how the days pass until nearly a lifetime is finished. Then it hits you--the thing you have been waiting for has already gone by. And it was going in the other direction. It's like I've been waiting on the wrong side of the road for a bus that was already full.
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