Sentence examples similar to Grand affair from inspiring English sources

The tranquillity of his existence is contrasted with the life of the cook's son, working in grimy Manhattan restaurants, and with his granddaughter's affair with a Nepali tutor involved in an insurgency that irrevocably alters Jemubhai's life.

At the story's center is a retired Cambridge-educated judge; Desai contrasts the tranquility of his existence with the life of his cook's son, an illegal immigrant in New York, and with his 17-year-old granddaughter's affair with a Nepali tutor involved in an insurgency.

The shifts between the judge's kitchen in India and the New York fast-food joints that employ the cook's illegal-immigrant son, between grandfather's recollections of colonialism's fag-end and granddaughter Sai's love affair with her guerrilla tutor, are elegantly handled.

Granddaughter of old Medicine Dress.

"Granddaughter," she said.

Granddaughter of Cass Gilbert, architect.

Granddaughter of Margaret Schieffelin Trevor and Henry Graff Trevor and Ensign Bennett Pardee, MD and Clara Burton Pardee.

Granddaughter of President Grover Cleveland.

Granddaughter Peri died in 2003.

The narrative then leaps forward to the 1950's to follow the lives of two brothers: Rashid, a Zanzibari academic in England, and Amin, who pursues his own illicit affair with Rehana's granddaughter.

The bride is a granddaughter of Virginia Knauer, who was the consumer affairs adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and is a descendant of Henry Clay Frick, the industrialist.