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Beauty |  | Author: Raphael Selbourne
Publisher: Tindal Street Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 912
Media: Paperback
Pages: 326
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0955647673
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780955647673
ASIN: 0955647673
Publication Date: September 3, 2009
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 10
 A bit disappointed... March 5, 2010
Anne Cecilia Kai Nielsen
Overall I think the storyline and the way it is written is good UNTIL the last part which seems as it almost was written in a hurry... and therefore making the ending a bit boring and unrealistic.
 Beauty by Raphael Selbourne March 3, 2010
Eric Green (Newark Englnad)
This is an interesting book detailing the life of a young girl just out of her teens attempting to adjust to life in a West Midlands town(Wolverhampton) surrounded by strangers in a strange environment.As a Bangladesshi the pressures on her to enter into an arranged marriage lead to her running away into an even stranger series of encounters as she fights for her personal freedom.The author
uses the Bangladesshi idiom as well as slang English to create an oppressive atmosphere which runs through out the book.I found it difficult to switch from the two different speech patterns at the beginning but gradually grew into the the rhythm of writing used by the author and found the experience worthwhile.
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 Heartbreaking & impossible to put down February 24, 2010
A. Ijkema (Belgium)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book was just so amazing. The style of writing, the characters, all so well worked out. The plot changes were natural but still unexepected. Especially the ending. I found it impossible to put down. A must read!
Authentic sense of place February 22, 2010
TV Girl (UK)
I lived in Wolverhampton - a fairly big city -for almost 10 years and I have always felt that it was odd that this city features so rarely in novels. So I personally greatly enjoyed the sense of place conveyed in this book - I was able to reflect upon the similarities and the differences to when I lived there.
I also liked the author's respect for the local dialect and its authentic reproduction here. This technique reminded me of Irvine Welsh's reproduction of Scots dialect in 'Trainspotting'.
I thought that the author was fairly careful to give good cues to the meaning of Bengali words when they first appeared in the text. However I would have found a glossary useful personally as I often had to search back for the meaning of a Bengali word when it was used for the second time - not because the meaning was needed to understand the text, but because it enriched my enjoyment of the book.
The subject matter of this novel was contemporary and gave an insight into working class and immigrant lives in Britain now. The character of Beauty was easy to like. Ideally I would have liked her personal journey to be longer and more detailed, the pitfalls she experienced along the way could have been dealt with in more depth had the novel been longer.
Still, always leave your audience wanting more!
Beauty in Wolverhampton February 18, 2010
Mead
I have found this an excellent insight into multiculturalism in Wolverhampton. While the characters could be seen as stereotypical, there is enough wit and humour to identify with and make these characters realistic. I particularly liked the phonetic spelling of local dialect. Anyone outside of Wolverhampton and the surrounding areas, might have difficulty understanding the humour and honesty of the language! Well worth the money: get reading.
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