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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780755383405
- Categories [2022], BXOS, Contemporary Fiction, F GEN, Fiction, Newest Arrivals
- Author(s) Farooki, Roopa
- Publisher Headline
- Pages 368
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 20.0cm x 2.0cm x 13.0cm
- Weight 0.27 kg
product description
THE FLYING MAN is the story of the ultimate immigrant from the twice Orange Prize long-listed author Roopa Farooki.Meet Maqil - also known as Mike, Mehmet, Mikhail and Miguel - a chancer and charlatan.A criminally clever man who tells a good tale, trading on his charm and good looks, reinventing himself with a new identity and nationality in each successive country he makes his home, abandoning wives and children and careers in the process. He's a compulsive gambler - driven to lose at least as much as he gains, in games of chance, and in life. A damaged man in search of himself.
