Sentences with phrase «pakistani shopkeeper»

Alone for six years since his wife passed, Retired British Officer Major Pettigrew has grown weary of the world around him, until Pakistani shopkeeper Mrs. Ali shows up on the scene.

But then his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village.

This 2010 surprise bestseller was a charming and engaging story of British country life in East Sussex, where a very English retired Major forms a surprising relationship with a Pakistani shopkeeper.

As the cards drop, readers meet the occupants, among them an elderly woman who remembers the street in post-Blitz ruins, a Pakistani shopkeeper and his quarrelsome brothers and a 17 - year - old soccer prodigy.

Not exact matches

, Major Pettigrew's life becomes enmeshed with that of Mrs. Ali, a widow and local shopkeeper of Pakistani heritage.