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Informationen zum Autor Roopa Farooki was born in Lahore in Pakistan and brought up in London. She graduated from New College, Oxford and worked in advertising before turning to write fiction. Roopa now lives in south-east England and south-west France with her husband, twin girls and two sons. Bitter Sweets, her first novel, was nominated for the Orange Award for New Writers 2007. Roopa's novels have been published internationally and translated into a dozen languages. Klappentext THE FLYING MAN is an affecting, evocative and often funny story of the ultimate immigrant. Meet Maqil - also known as Mike, Mehmet, and Miguel - a chancer and charlatan. A criminally clever man who tells a good tale, trading on his charm and looks, reinventing himself with a new identity and nationality in each successive country he makes his home, abandoning wives and children in the process. He's a compulsive gambler - driven to lose at least as much as he gains in life. Zusammenfassung From the twice Orange Prize longlisted author, THE FLYING MAN is the story of the ultimate immigrant, a man who fits in everywhere and nowhere. Perfect for fans of Hanif Kureshi, Kamila Shamsie, Jhumpa Lahiri
