02450nam a2200325 i 4500 OSt 20201123105735.0 201123t20192020nyu er 000 f eng d 9780525486480 RM54.50 paperback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 813.6 813.6 KAM G Kamal, Soniah, author. Unmarriageable : A Novel / SONIAH KAMAL Ballantine Books trade paperback edition New York : Ballantine Books, 2019 ©2019 360 pages : 20 cm rdacontent text rdamedia unmediated rdacarrier volume Includes Random House Reader's Circle reader's guide (questions and topics for discussion). "In this retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan, Alys Binat has sworn never to marry--until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider. A scandal and vicious rumor in the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages, but Alys, the second and most practical of the five Binat daughters, has found happiness teaching English literature to schoolgirls. Knowing that many of her students won't make it to graduation before dropping out to marry and start having children, Alys teaches them about Jane Austen and her other literary heroes and hopes to inspire them to dream of more. When an invitation arrives to the biggest wedding their small town has seen in years, Mrs. Binat excitedly sets to work preparing her daughters to fish for eligible--and rich--bachelors, certain that their luck is about to change. On the first night of the festivities, Alys's lovely older sister, Jena, catches the eye of one of the most eligible bachelors. But his friend Valentine Darsee is clearly unimpressed by the Binat family. Alys accidentally overhears his unflattering assessment of her, and quickly dismisses him and his snobbish ways. But as the days of lavish wedding parties unfold, the Binats wait breathlessly to see if Jena will land a proposal--and Alys begins to realize that Darsee's brusque manner may be hiding a very different man from the one she saw at first glance. Young women Pakistan Pāṭa Fiction Sisters Fiction Mate selection Fiction Domestic Fiction ddc B 180074 180074 0 0 PPAK G 2020-12-06 813.6 KAM A01662599 2020-12-06 00:00:00 B 0 0 SP G 2020-12-06 1 1 813.6 KAM A01662600 2022-10-04 00:00:00 2022-08-27 B 0 0 JT G 2020-12-06 813.6 KAM A01662601 2020-12-06 00:00:00 B 0 0 LW G 2020-12-06 2 813.6 KAM A01662602 2024-08-15 14:08:25 2024-07-31 B 0 0 KM G 2020-12-06 5 4 813.6 KAM A01662603 2023-04-10 00:00:00 2023-03-15 B 0 0 BL G 2020-12-06 813.6 KAM A01662604 2020-12-06 00:00:00 B 0 0 BB G 2020-12-06 3 1 813.6 KAM A01662605 2022-10-20 00:00:00 2022-10-05 B 0 0 MR G 2020-12-06 813.6 KAM A01662606 2020-12-06 00:00:00 B 0 0 YN G 2020-12-06 813.6 KAM A01662607 2020-12-06 00:00:00 B 0 0 SK G 2020-12-06 1 813.6 KAM A01662608 2023-03-15 2023-02-22 00:00:00 2023-02-22 B 0 0 KN G 2020-12-06 813.6 KAM A01662609 2020-12-06 00:00:00 B 0 0 PG G 2020-12-06 1 813.6 KAM A01662610 2021-04-18 00:00:00 2021-04-01 B