Bali Rai - (Un)arranged Marriages

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Story:-

The plot is as such - a 14 year old guy resides with his Jatt family in - how creative - Leicester! He hates his family and even more so as they pressurize him to get married by the age of 17. His dreams and ambitions are all put at stake by their decision, and unlike the other members of the family, he doesn't wish to give them up.

Its the story of a young boy finding his way out of the complexities of traditions and religions and emerging out on his own. He finds a phirang girlfriend and refuses to relate with Indians. In a nutshell - he is pretty much an American born confused desi.

Drawback:-

The story revolves all around this particular character trying to go against the world and pretty much this issue is framed fine. Where Rai goes wrong is the ending. You'd detest yourself for reading the whole book when you'd find out the ending. I mean - how uncreative and desperate can you get to end the book. Perhaps I would've liked the novel much better if it would've had a sensible ending - however, it fails me so.

Rai uses too much slangish english when using dialogues - makes you irritated at times. He seems to be quite unsure and fogged up at various times and highly confused. The story also falls weak with his words - its elongated to a very large extent and tends to bore you soon.

This is just summary ...you can read full wikipedia for it .

Thank you! I have read the book but need others intepretation of it :) Thanks for your help :)