The Newlyweds

byNell Freudenberger

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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.
Powerful...in its clear-eyed openness and compassion toward the world, in its nuanced and human representation of Muslim characters and their varying Islams, and in the understanding and sympathy it displays for the nostalgia of migrants - which is to say, for all human beings, even those who are born and die in the same town and travel only in time
Mohsin Hamid, New York Times Book Review

About Nell Freudenberger

Nell Freudenberger is the author of three previous works of fiction. She was selected for the New Yorker's 20 under 40 and Granta's Best of Young American Writers and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award and a Cullman fellowship from the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241962718
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Price: £5.99
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