# The Flying Man

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- Book: [The Flying Man](https://www.bookquiver.com/roopa-farooki/the-flying-man) ([The Flying Man.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/roopa-farooki/the-flying-man.md))
- Authors: [Roopa Farooki](https://www.bookquiver.com/roopa-farooki)
- Publisher: headline_review
- ISBN: 978-07-5538-340-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2012-08-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

THE FLYING MAN is the story of the ultimate immigrant from the twice Orange Prize long-listed author Roopa Farooki. 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.