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Love Comes Later
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When newlywed Abdulla loses his wife and unborn child in a car accident, the world seems to crumble beneath his feet. Thrust back into living in the family compound, he goes through the motions—work, eat, sleep, repeat. Blaming himself for their deaths, he decides to never marry again but knows that culturally, this is not an option. Three years later, he’s faced with an arranged marriage to his cousin Hind, whom he hasn’t seen in years. Hard-pressed to find a way out, he consents to a yearlong engagement and tries to find a way to end it. What he doesn’t count on, and is unaware of, is Hind’s own reluctance to marry.
Longing for independence, she insists on being allowed to complete a master’s degree in England, a condition Abdulla readily accepts. When she finds an unlikely friend in Indian-American Sangita, she starts down a path that will ultimately place her future in jeopardy.
The greatest success of Rajakumar’s novel is the emotional journey the reader takes via her rich characters. One cannot help but feel the pressure of the culturally mandated marriage set before Hind and Abdulla. He’s not a real Muslim man if he remains single, and she will never be allowed freedoms without the bondage of a potentially loveless marriage. It’s an impossible situation dictated by a culture that they still deeply respect.
Rajakumar pulls back the veil on life in Qatar to reveal a glimpse of Muslim life rarely seen by Westerners.
"...a deliciously tangled plot and insight into life on the Persian Gulf."
Kirkus Review
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Rajakumar's pedestrian romance uncovers the tensions of a long-arranged engagement between two Qataris who want nothing to do with marriage. After Abdulla's pregnant wife dies in a car crash, he refuses to remarry. When his family finally arranges his marriage to cousin Hind, he is relieved that she insists on completing a master's degree in England first. Secretly rebellious Hind relishes the freedom of Europe, happily postponing her wedding for a year. She moves in with an Indian-American classmate, Sangita, whose impulsive brother, Ravi, turns Hind's head. When Abdulla arrives in London unannounced, Sangita's attempts to occupy him (and thereby hide Hind's clandestine trip to India with Ravi) blossom into mutual attraction. The characters' tendency to blurt trivial facts makes for some awkward conversation. More disorienting is Rajakumar's odd pacing, which makes Hind's year abroad fly by while dragging out the character development. Readers wanting to peer into Arab customs will enjoy the anthropological details that provide intriguing insights into Qatari culture, but the story's wooden dialogue and obvious ending disappoint. (BookLife)