Exotic rissole : a memoir / Tanveer Ahmed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahmed, Tanvir.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Australia--Biography.

Immigrants.

Muslims--Australia--Biography.

Muslims.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : New South Publishing, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Can life be too spicy? Suffering from an overload of turmeric and the complexities of growing up in an immigrant Bangladeshi family in Sydney's west, eleven-year-old Tanveer Ahmed thinks it probably can. And so begins an unpredictable, and very entertaining, double life - sampling the delights of Aussie cuisine, joining a cricket team that gets mistaken for a terrorist group and a stint as a Bollywood-style game show host. After discovering an aversion to dead bodies as a medical student, Tanveer, quite inevitably, decides he'll become a psychiatrist. The Exotic Rissole is an irreverent and ve

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Prologue

1 Arrival Allergy

2 My Favourite Teacher

3 Bald and Dangerous

4 Romantic Mismatch

5 Traffic and Ties

6 Love, God and Dissection

7 The Other Taliban

8 Work and Women

9 Illegal Alien

10 Shooting with Bill

11 Village Honeymoon

12 The House Call

13 First Day in the Asylum

14 My Fifteen Minutes of Fame

15 A Failure to Remember

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-74224-570-6

OCLC:

769342344