Mandarin Patisserie

By Nancy Wdowicki
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Published: Nov. 21, 2011
Words: 134,285 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781466081284

Short description

After moving to Dubai, Vivek Alvares relents and thinks that just maybe he really is trapped in an ethereal vortex that his Hindu mother cautioned would be his fate if he moved to the Middle East. Breathless with anxiety over twisted, absurd experiences, Vivek makes a series of panicked efforts to free himself from dark horrors he discovers in the otherwise glittering emirate.

Extended description

Mandarin Patisserie reveals a tragic tale of one man's pursuit of a wonderful life -- in this case, in the formerly much ballyhooed emirate, by the twenty-five-year-old Goan, Vivek Alvares.
Vivek’s twisted experiences in the property, gold, jewelry and other popular business sectors of Dubai expose the glittering emirate’s dirty underbelly.
Vivek commences his journey as the quintessential good boy, with fine parents who have provided him with a solid upbringing and fine education in the UK and US. But, interacting in a strange land with cold, transient strangers from all over the world, Vivek is too naive to notice red flags that forewarn his impending financial, emotional, and moral tailspin.
In Dubai, once individuals with the best of intentions find themselves in bizarre circumstances and difficulties, they usually succumb to Dubai’s court system and jails. There they discover that they’ve become commodities with an actual value on their heads – for Just as Dubai has ma.. (Read more) Mandarin Patisserie reveals a tragic tale of one man's pursuit of a wonderful life -- in this case, in the formerly much ballyhooed emirate, by the twenty-five-year-old Goan, Vivek Alvares.
Vivek’s twisted experiences in the property, gold, jewelry and other popular business sectors of Dubai expose the glittering emirate’s dirty underbelly.
Vivek commences his journey as the quintessential good boy, with fine parents who have provided him with a solid upbringing and fine education in the UK and US. But, interacting in a strange land with cold, transient strangers from all over the world, Vivek is too naive to notice red flags that forewarn his impending financial, emotional, and moral tailspin.
In Dubai, once individuals with the best of intentions find themselves in bizarre circumstances and difficulties, they usually succumb to Dubai’s court system and jails. There they discover that they’ve become commodities with an actual value on their heads – for Just as Dubai has made money selling sand, it makes money on just about everything else, including its prisoners.
The backdrop of what might otherwise be an ordinary journey fraught with expected challenges that one encounters when applying brains and ambition to attain success is complicated in Vivek’s case by the fact that the emirate has not modernized in every sense that young ambitious people from throughout the world – and who have limited cultural knowledge or experience with the area – are willing to believe. Vivek eventually becomes forced to confront a warning that his mother had given him prior to his departure. Before he left, she told him that he would likely find himself caught in an ethereal vortex from which many are unable to emerge unscathed – if at all.
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romance, wisconsin, gold, women, suspense, education, fear, money, prison, middle east, university, terror, catholic, uk, english, london, india, boston, poverty, america, jail, real estate, escape, dubai, hinduism, catholicism, gemstones, panic, girlfriends, arab, jewelry, us, hindu, vortex, goa, arabia, portugal, denmark, property, danish, portuguese, united arab emirates, trap, uae, jewellery, dirhams

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