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Jane Austen's Emma, transported to the outrageous social melee of 21st-century Lahore.
Our plucky heroine's cousin, Jonkers, has been dumped by his low-class, slutty secretary, and our heroine has been charged with finding him a suitable wife -- a rich, fair, beautiful, old-family type. Quickly. But, between you, me and the four walls, who wants to marry poor, plain, hapless Jonkers?
As our heroine social-climbs her way through weddings-sheddings, GTs (get togethers, of course) and ladies' lunches trying to find a suitable girl from the right bagground, she discovers to her dismay that her cousin has his own ideas about his perfect mate. And secretly, she may even agree.
Full of wit and wickedness and as clever as its heroine is clueless, Duty Free is a delightful romp through Pakistani high society -- though, even as it makes you cry with laughter, it makes you wince at the gulf between our heroine's glitteringly shallow life and the country that is falling apart, day by day, around her Louboutin-clad feet. Moni Mohsin, already a huge bestseller in India, has been hailed as a modern-day Jane Austen, and compared to Nancy Mitford and Helen Fielding. Duty Free is social satire at its biting best.
- Sales Rank: #1803235 in Books
- Brand: Broadway Books
- Published on: 2011-09-06
- Released on: 2011-09-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .56" w x 5.18" l, .49 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
- Great product!
Review
"Achingly funny, touching, and fizzing with intelligence, this book will have you laughing out loud even as you fear for the state of world politics." – Tash Aw, author of The Harmony Silk Factory
"Moni Mohsin is one of the funniest and sharpest satirists writing anywhere in the world today -- she can make you laugh out loud even while she delivers hard-hitting critiques of Lahore high society and the state of Pakistani politics." — Kamila Shamsie
"This is a wildly entertaining book but, beware, it also bites."
— Neel Mukherjee
“Refreshing, humorous, irreverent, and satirical, Moni Mohsin’s Duty Free �is more than a boy-meets-girl story. It is an insightful social commentary.” – Bharti Kirchner, author of Darjeeling
"A delicious bon-bon of a book, skewering Pakistani society. Great good fun." – Daniyal Mueenuddin, author of In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
"Achingly funny, touching, and fizzing with intelligence, this book will have you laughing out loud even as you fear for the state of world politics." – Tash Aw, author of The Harmony Silk Factory
"Refreshing, humorous, irreverent, and satirical, Moni Mohsin’s Duty Free is more than a boy-meets-girl story. It is an insightful social commentary." --Bharti Kirchner, author of Darjeeling
"A deliciously funny book starring a clueless socialite heroine with inner savvy and a heart of gold. While this sharp, hilarious spoof of upper class life is set against a backdrop of political unrest in Lahore, Pakistan, Moni Mohsin's lively, witty satire will appeal to a wide readership." – Anjali Banerjee, author of Haunting Jasmine
"Hilarious self-absorption and malapropisms...make the author's American debut worth reading." --Clarissa Cruz, People�
"Witty, bright, charming and wise,�Duty Free�is a delightful find." --K.C. Martin, Shelf Awareness
About the Author
Moni Mohsin is the author of the Indian bestseller The Diary of a Social Butterfly and the award-winning The End of Innocence.� Born in Pakistan, she currently lives in London. Duty Free is her American debut.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Good story once you get accustomed to the dialect...
By Angela Reads
This is, hands down, the most unusual book I've read this year. Moni Mohsin is a Pakistani novelist who currently lives in London. This is her American debut novel, and the entire book is written in what I think is a Pakistani/English dialect. If you can get used to the dialect, you may enjoy the story.
The heroine is an unnamed Pakistani woman of the wealthier class, with husband Janoo and young son Kulchoo. Her aunt demands that she help find a wife for her cousin Jonkers, but she isn't thrilled about it. Her biggest concerns are her beloved son Kulchoo, her social standing, and her expensive clothes, makeup, and lifestyle. Her marriage to Janoo is obviously in trouble. And on top of all that, there are bombs dropping around her and terrorist attacks to deal with. The last straw is when Jonkers decides that he might want to pick his OWN bride instead of an arranged marriage.
At first, our unnamed narrator is quite shallow, but she shows some good character development as the story progresses. And she can be clever and funny. I think there is a lot of humor here. The other characters are colorful, and overall it's an entertaining story. This has been compared to Jane Austen's Emma, but I disagree. Both ladies tried to be match makers, but the similarity ends there, in my opinion. I have never read a novel set in Pakistan before, and I enjoyed the glimpse of what life might be like for a woman in the upper classes of that country.
But back to the dialect. You really need to get used to the dialect in order to enjoy the story. Some readers will not be able to get past it. I had a hard time reading the first few chapters. In nearly every paragraph you will find wrong spelling, incorrect grammar, and Pakistani words thrown in. (Oh, yeah, and the narrator can also be politically incorrect at times.)
Let me give you some sample sentences, so you can judge for yourself:
"You know Jonkers, na? He's my Aunty Pussy's one and only child. Her sun and air."
"But I have very good sick-sense like that."
"They lost some when Musharraf's guvmunt did its little a countability drama in the begining."
"Good radiance, I thought. Last month, thanks God, die-vorce came through."
After a few chapters, I did get used to the writing, and I enjoyed the plot. I would recommend this book to readers who don't mind lots of dialect, are interested in Pakistan, or who simply want to read something unusual by a new novelist.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Lahore High-Society through the eyes of a social butterfly
By Avid reader
"Duty Free" (originally released as "Tender Hooks") is a worthy follow-up to Moni Mohsin's "Diary of a Social Butterfly". This novel continues to follow our heroine from get-together (GT) to kitty party to wedding in her quest to find a suitable bride for her cousin(rich-rich, fair-fair, and no worries with Jonkers' divorce from his trashy secretary). She must find a bride before the middle of December, or else something might happen to her son (Butterfly believes that Jonkers' mum, Pussy, has cursed Butterfly's son if the bride is not found).
While all this bride hunting is going on, Pakistan is falling further into disarray. Beardo-weirdos (fundamentalists) are blowing up offices, trains, schools, and cars; backstabbing frenemies are working against Butterfly's matrimonial mission; and her marriage is slowly degenerating into nothingness. Our heroine does get a wake up call or two-about the political and social situation in her country (it cannot be ignored or swept under the rug), and about her marriage (it takes two to make a marriage work).
Some of the previous reviewers have had a problem with Butterfly's malapropisms and language usage. I know people like Butterfly, and have received letters from them and they are very like what is in this book. Yes, Moni Mohsin goes a little over the top with this device, but it fits the character, who is also over the top and larger than life.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Between you, me and the four walls...
By Amy W
I love to read new versions of Jane Austen novels and have to say that I was excited to start reading `Duty Free' by Moni Moshin for I thought with a setting such a modern day Lahore it has to have so much potential for fun and intrigue. The story was hard for me to get into, not that I didn't find it interesting but it was the language the author used that made it a very difficult read. I understand that the feel of the novel was to create a 2nd English language feel with words like "baggrounds" but it lost its feel for me when I was reading because I wanted to correct the language over and over again. Putting the language aside, the writing style is simple and flows but the story did have a journal or diary type feel when reading and I found it to be exhausting when the main character is nothing like our Emma but is much more self-centered and money oriented women. The story had some funny antidotes and some memorable characters, but I found it predicable and overall the language just so very trying on my nerves... as Mrs. Bennet would say. (Another Jane Austen reference) Before coming to the end and having some of my hopes redeemed by the way the author tied everything together, I was secretly hoping that Janoo, the unnamed heroine's husband, might just decide that he has had enough of his wife and take their son and leave all this drama behind. It pains me to be so honest in my review, but I just honestly could not get into this novel not even for all the kitties in the world.
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