Corner Shop (Hardcover) by Roopa Farooki

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Corner Shop (Hardcover) by Roopa Farooki
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There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting your heart’s desire – and the other? Getting it. Fourteen-year-old Lucky Khalil loves three things: football, Star Wars and Portia, the girl who works in his grandfather’s corner shop. In that order. But Lucky has a destiny – worse than a destiny, he has a dream. He dreams that one day, his lucky left foot will win the World Cup for England . It torments him, because it tastes real, because when he wakes he weeps with disappointment that it is just a dream.

Meanwhile, Lucky’s mother Delphine seems to have had all her dreams come true. But Delphine feels increasingly trapped in her apparently perfect marriage and gilded lifestyle. She fantasizes about rediscovering the freedom of her youth, but rekindling a relationship with her maverick father-in-law, Zaki, is only going to end in disaster.

Zaki, a charming gambler who loved and lost Delphine long before she married his sensible and successful son, feels equally trapped in the corner shop that he has unwillingly run for years for his family’s sake. He wonders whether the time has come to abandon his middle class responsibilities, to try once more to achieve his own long-forgotten dreams.

As each of the Khalils discovers in Roopa Farooki’s beautifully written and richly layered tale, the closer one’s dreams become, the more risk there is of losing sight of what really matters.

Condition

New

Author

Roopa Farooki

Book Pages

355

Publisher

Macmillan

Published Date

2009-02-03

Format

Hardcover

Age Group

Adult

Recording Studio

St. Martin'S Press

Gender

Unisex

ISBN-10

0312375565

ISBN-13

9780312375560

Model

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