by Deborah Moggach · Vintage Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099479796
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«Hot Water Man» is Deborah Moggach's contemporary fiction novel, published by Vintage Books in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Christine and Donald Manley arrive from London to the suffocating heat of Karachi: she wants to get pregnant, he wants to sell contraceptives. Among the expatriates, Duke Hanson falls hopelessly in love with a young Pakistani woman. The tragicomedy reveals the strangeness of newcomers in the tangle of Anglo-American-Oriental relations.
Novel originally published in 1984; this Vintage Books edition is from 2006.
For readers of contemporary fiction set in Pakistan and fans of Deborah Moggach, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Deborah Moggach is an English playwright, novelist and screenwriter. She has written nineteen novels, including The Ex-Wives (1993), Tulip Fever, These Foolish Things and Heartbreak Hotel (2013). Her film scripts include Pride and Prejudice (2005).
