The English Harem

The English Harem

by Anthony Mc Carten (Author)

Synopsis

In this hilarious, provocative and highly topical story of food, love and Islam, Anthony McCarten exposes the flaws inherent to our multicultural society, and explores the nature of racism from a startlingly original angle.Supermarket checkout girl Tracy Pringle has a very lively imagination indeed. In front of her, as she blip-blips herself into a daydream, walk past not boring housewives with screaming children or tired office clerks, but the likes of Lord Byron, Lawrence of Arabia and Princess Leia. It comes as no surprise, then, that she turns a blind eye when Her Majesty herself pops a packet of Mr Kipling's Bakewell tarts into her handbag without paying. Obviously, the management sees it differently, and Tracy is given the sack on the spot and forced to find herself another job. But nothing can prepare her for the new life that awaits her at the Taste of Persia restaurant, where she is flung headlong into a clash of cultures, languages, dinner plates, religions and a rather tricky domestic arrangement...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: New
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
Published: 20 Mar 2008

ISBN 10: 1846880637
ISBN 13: 9781846880636

Media Reviews
Everyone who reads McCarten's generous, humane, funny, and moving novel will come away enriched. - Timothy Mo McCarten's novel hovers between indignant satire and engaging comedy of manners while sounding a clarion call against the bigotry and intolerance in our society Sunday Times Anthony McCarten dares to speak of English multiculturalism in the satirical tongue that most native writers keep mute The Observer
Author Bio
The English Harem and Death of a Superhero were both published by Alma in 2006. McCarten has also written twelve stage plays, including the worldwide success Ladies' Night, which won France's Moliere Prize in 2001. His novel Spinners will be published by Alma in Spring 2008.