'I was beginning to love my thief, a man I barely knew, but whom I had trusted and even liked, and who had taken my savings, amongst many other crimes.'
A bravura piece of very personal reportage by Hanif Kureishi about the man who stole his...
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 —...
Over the course of the last 12 years, Hanif Kureishi has written short fiction. The stories are, by turns, provocative, erotic, tender, funny and charming as they deal with the complexities of relationships as well as the joys of children.This...
Shahid, como el Karim de El buda de los suburbios, es «casi un inglés», está en el paso de la adolescencia a la edad adulta y, como cualquier chico listo de su edad, quiere cambiar la aburrida vida de provincias por la excitación de...
«Mi nombre es Karim Amir y soy inglés de los pies a la cabeza, casi.» Así empieza El buda de los suburbios. El buda en cuestión es el padre de Karim, un respetable pakistaní de clase y edad medias, casado con una inglesa, que...
The protagonist of this novel is a 15-year-old North London schoolboy called Gabriel. He is forced to come to terms with a new life, and use his gift for painting in order to make sense of his world, once the equilibrium of the family has been...
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An inventive, thought-provoking and characteristically bold collection of short fiction and essays from Hanif Kureishi, centered around the vexed relationship between love and hate.
In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in...
In this collection of stories, Kureishi chronicles the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. They represent the frustrated and intoxicating, the melancholic and sensitive, capable of great cruelty and willing to break constraints of an old life...
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later, as he...