Thursday, 3 December 2015
A Blonde Bengali Wife by Anne Hamilton
Release Date: 3rd November 2015
Pages: 320
They all said that Bangladesh would be an experience...
For
Anne Hamilton, a three month winter programme of travel and ‘cultural exchange’
in a country where the English language, fair hair and a rice allergy are all
rare in the extreme was always going to be interesting, challenging and
frustrating. What they didn’t tell Anne was that it
would also be sunny, funny and the start of a love affair with this unexplored
area of Southeast Asia. A Blonde Bengali Wife shows the lives beyond the
poverty, monsoons and diarrhoea of Bangladesh and charts a vibrant and
fascinating place where one minute Anne is levelling a school playing field ‘fit
for the national cricket team,’ cobbling together a sparkly outfit for a formal
wedding the next.
Along
with Anne are the essential ingredients for survival: a travel-savvy Australian
sidekick, a heaven-sent adopted family, and a short, dark, and handsome
boy-next-door.During
her adventures zipping among the dusty clamour of the capital Dhaka, the
longest sea beach in the world at Cox’s Bazaar, verdant Sylhet tea gardens, and
the voluntary health projects of distant villages, Anne amasses a lot of
friends, stories...and even a husband? A Blonde Bengali Wife is the ‘unexpected travelogue’
that reads like a comedy of manners to tell the other side of the story of
Bangladesh.
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