Book description
From Nell Freudenberger, one of America's most dazzling talents,
comes The Newlyweds, an utterly captivating cross-continental
love story
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.
A brilliantly observed, wry and yet deeply moving novel about the
exhilerations - 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.
'Young writers as ambitious - and as good - as Nell Freudenberger
give us reason for hope', New York Times Book Review
'Freudenberg has rare humanity, and talent great enough to command
not only a vast landscape of imbalance and misunderstanding, but also
a tender sphere of tiny intimacy, hidden yearning...A marvellous
book', Kiran Desai, winner of the MAN Booker Prize for The
Inheritance of Loss
Nell Freudenberger is the author of the novel The Dissident,
(longlisted for the Orange Prize) and the story collection Lucky
Girls, winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and shortlisted for the
Orange New Writers' Prize and a New York Times Book Review
Notable Book. She was named a New Yorker '20 Under 40' writer
and one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. She lives in
Brooklyn, New York.
Nell Freudenberger is the author of the novel
The Dissident
(longlisted for the Orange Prize) and the story collection
Lucky Girls,
winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and shortlisted for the Orange New
Writers' Prize and a
New York Times Book Review
Notable Book. She was named a
New Yorker
'20 Under 40' writer and one of
Granta
's Best Young American Novelists. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
