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Collected Essays by Hanif Kureishi
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Category: Fiction
This collection begins in the early 1980s with "The Rainbow Sign," which was written as the Introduction to the screenplay of "My Beautiful Laundrette." It allowed Kureishi to expand upon the issues raised by the film: race, class, sexuality - issues that were provoked by his childhood and family situat ...Show more
Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
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Category: Fiction
'It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.' Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds, in an unforgettable, and often pitiless, reflection on their time together he analyses the joys and agonies of trying to make a life with anothe ...Show more
Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
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Category: Fiction | Series: Secrets and Lies
An unsettling and emotionally charged look at the end of a relationship, from the acclaimed author of The Buddha of Suburbia. 'It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back'. Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds he remember ...Show more
Love in a Blue Time by Hanif Kureishi
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Category: Fiction
This collection of short stories is about the difficult, serious business of love and hate. Here are characters united by one thing: they are all creatures of strong desire. Love in a Blue Time charts the growth of a generation, from the liberating irreverence of the late 1970s to the dilemmas of respon ...Show more
My Son the Fanatic (Faber Stories) by Hanif Kureishi
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Category: Fiction
I'm going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house. When Parvez's son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he's taking drugs and selling his possessions to pay for them. His fellow taxi drivers are triumphant: they knew something was wrong. Bettina, the prostitute Pa ...Show more
Shattered by Hanif Kureishi
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Category: Biography & Memoir
From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed 'A few days ago, a bomb went off in my life, but this bomb has also shattered the lives of those around me. My partner, my children, my friends.' On Boxing Day 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a f ...Show more
Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi
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Category: Fiction
Jamal Khan, a psychoanalyst in his fifties living in London, is haunted by memories of his teens: his first love, Ajita; the exhilaration of sex, drugs and politics; and a brutal act of violence which changed his life for ever. As he and his best friend Henry attempt to make the sometimes painful, somet ...Show more
The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi
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Category: Fiction
Shahid is a clean-cut student, trying to make an impression on his college lecturer, Deedee Osgood, who gives his spirits a lift when she takes him to a naked rave party. Shahid's academic prospects are threatened by the intervention of his gangster brother Chili, who, with his Armani suits and Gucci lo ...Show more
The Black Album (Revolutionary Writing) by Hanif Kureishi
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Category: Fiction | Series: Revolutionary Writing
Shahid is a clean-cut student, trying to make an impression on his college lecturer, Deedee Osgood, who gives his spirits a lift when she takes him to a naked rave party. Shahid's academic prospects are threatened by the intervention of his gangster brother Chili, who, with his Armani suits and Gucci lo ...Show more
The Body and Other Stories by Hanif Kureishi
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Category: Fiction
The Body is a dazzling collection of fiction from Hanif Kureishi, beginning with a novella that delves into the concept of identity, and its root in our physical being. Adam is a middle-aged playwright who accepts a tempting offer to have his mind transported into a younger body for six months. Youth re ...Show more
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
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Category: Fiction
"My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost...". The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is dreamy teenager Karim, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre ...Show more