The Wedding Wallah: Number 3 in series
By (Author) Farahad Zama
Little, Brown Book Group
Abacus
28th June 2011
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Family life fiction
Romance
Humorous fiction
823.92
Short-listed for Muslim Writers Award for Best International Fiction 2011 (UK)
Paperback
352
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 23mm
242g
Mr Ali's flourishing marriage bureau seems to have chalked up another success when his ward, Pari, receives a surprise proposal from a rich, handsome aristocrat. But why is the boy's family so keen to get him married to Pari - an orphan, a widow, and now a single mother
Meanwhile Communist insurgents on the warpath in India's rural hinterland, and gays on the march for their rights in the big cities of Bombay and Delhi seem from another world. But soon these threatening forces invade the peaceful lives of Mr and Mrs Ali, their son Rehman and their able assistant Aruna...Farahad works for an investment bank. The Marriage Bureau for Rich People was a Richard & Judy/Daily Mail selection and was shortlisted for Waterstone's First Novel at the 2009 National Book Awards and a Muslim Writers Award, and it won the 2009 Melissa Nathan Award.