I was once a journalist, a club director, a prisoner, a counterfeiter, an internet entrepreneur. I was once a son, a husband, a father. And now I'm a Storyteller.' 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. From the day he was delivered in Lahore, Pakistan, alongside his stillborn twin, he proved he was a born survivor. He has been a master of flying escapes, from Cairo to Paris, from London to Hong Kong, humbled by love, outliving his peers, and ending up old and alone in a budget hotel in Biarritz some eighty years later.
'One thing will always stand out when it matters: the author's voice. And Farooki has one to be proud of' -- Independent on Sunday 'Farooki manages the emotional minefield with humour and compassion' -- The Times 'One of the brightest young British authors to have emerged in recent years' -- Bella
Title: The Flying Man
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Roopa Farooki
ISBN 13: 9780755383382
ISBN 10: 0755383389
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Imprint: Headline Review
Publication Date: 31/01/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern fiction
Dewey Classification:
823.92
(DC23)
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
Height: 224mm
Width: 143mm
Thickness: 32mm
Weight: 490g