Foreign Brides (Picador Paperback)

Foreign Brides (Picador Paperback)

by ElenaLappin (Author)

Synopsis

Funny, irreverent, dark, and tender - a startling and sexy debut collection. Women (and men) cope with foreign marriages in Elena Lappin's shrewd domestic comedies of the absurd, set in London, New York, and a constellation of European and Israeli cities. Transplanted across oceans and ensconced in strange houses where appliances malfunction and husbands are not what they seem, women like Noa, Vera, and Paula settle into lives of persistently unfamiliar routine, stirred up from time to time with a very crooked stick. In 'Noa and Noah', Noa, an Israeli, has been married for two years before her English improves and she realizes that her British husband, Noah, is not a glamorous young businessman but a dull junior debt collector. In revenge she begins to frequent a nonkosher butcher-and that's just the beginning. Vera, a Russian, married to an unsuccessful British butler, takes to cab driving and extortion in 'Peacock'; Paula, a German, married to her dead best friend's husband, writes stories and snorts cocaine in 'Bad Writing'. With perfect pitch and a poker face, Lappin writes insidiously funny tales about love and survival in an international no-man's-land of marriage.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 24 Mar 2000

ISBN 10: 0330371193
ISBN 13: 9780330371193
Book Overview: Elena Lappin is the author of The Nose .

Media Reviews
'Lappin's work is rich and pretty fearless' Time Out 'Elena Lappin is a natural storyteller . . . A fearlessly well-crafted mystery and a compelling novel' Helen Davies, Times Literary Supplement '[One of] the book's charms is its unusually sunny, affectionate and believable portrait of the early years of a marriage . . . Lappin's real gift seems to be zestful absurdist comedy. But her book still bravely attempts serious points. Guilt and innocence are more widely distributed than zealots like to imagine; racist fanatics are alive and well' Maggie Gee, Sunday Times 'An entertaining and satisfying read. Funny too, despite the subject matter, and with a gravity-free inventiveness' Stephen Blanchard, Time Out