Hanif Kureishi

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Intimacy

Shahid, a young man at a second-rate London college, finds himself torn between his own future and the growing fervor of the Muslim community. By the author of The Buddha of Suburbia. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

The Black Album

Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani father when his son rejects the material possessions and values he has slaved all his life for and embraces a fundamentalist sect of Islam.

My Son, the Fanatic

Hanif Kureishi's first novel, the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1990.

The Buddha of Suburbia

"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 announces itself, Karim starts to win the sort of attention he has been craving - albeit with some rude and raucous results. With the publication of Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi landed into the literary landscape as a distinct new voice and a fearless taboo-breaking writer. The novel inspired a ground-breaking BBC series featuring a soundtrack by David Bowie.

Hanif Kureishi's powerful new work: a tense and captivating exploration of lust, helplessness, and deception "A punchy, disturbing fable." - Guardian

The Nothing

Described by Stuart Hall as "one of the most riveting and important films produced by a black writer in recent years," My Beautiful Laundrette was a significant production for its director Stephen Frears and its writer Hanif Kureshi. Christine Geraghty considers it a crossover film: between television and cinema, realism and fantasy, and as an independent film targeting a popular audience. She deftly shows how it has remained an important and timely film in the 1990s and early 2000s, and her exploration of the film itself is an original and entertaining achievement.

And Other Writings

My Beautiful Launderette

A Novel and Stories

Intimacy and Midnight All Day

Love in a Blue Time is a brilliant collection of stories by the bestselling author of The Buddha of Suburbia. This time, Hanif Kureishi's subject is the difficult, serious business of love - and hate. His stories have all the qualities of his novels: they are funny, inventive, bawdy, and aggressively contemporary. The characters that stride out of the pages of Love in a Blue Time, however damaged, deranged or despicable, are united by one thing: they are all creatures of strong desire. 'In this haunting, troubling collection of short stories, Hanif Kureishi has finally embraced the decadence that has lain in wait for him . . . A tense, desolate and consuming collection.' Observer 'The whole collection buzzes with anger and angst.' Time Out

Love in a Blue Time

Unwilling to admit that he has entered into middle age, successful psychoanalyst and divorced father Jamal interacts with a string of outcast friends while struggling with memories about his first love, from whom he had been separated by an unconfessed act of violence. By the author of The Buddha of Suburbia. 40,000 first printing.

A Novel

Something to Tell You

This is the story of a dreamy teenager, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits that the 1970s seem to offer. When he is given an unlikely opportunity in the theatre, he wins the attention he has been craving, albeit with some rude and raucous results.

When the brain of older man Adam is surgically placed within the body of a younger man, he takes an extended vacation from the real world and embarks on an odyssey of hedonism, an adventure that is compromised by his increasing feelings of guilt and sinister forces that urge him to return the body. 20,000 first printing.

The Body

In the essay 'The Rainbow Sign', which was first published in 1986 along with the screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette, Kureishi recounts how, growing up in England, where racists 'weren't discriminating in their racial discrimination', he could understand the motives of 'a black boy who, [having] noticed that burnt skin turned white, jumped into a bath of boiling water'. Then, visiting Pakistan for the first time, Kureishi shook with incomprehension at the notion that he was not considered a foreigner. The collection's title piece is a fascinating account of how Kureishi overcame his 'educational anorexia', how curiosity developed, and how school-teaching could work if only those at the front of the class didn't loathe their pupils.

Reflections on Writing and Politics

Dreaming and Scheming

Intimidad

The protagonist of this novel is a fifteen-year-old north London schoolboy called Gabriel, who is forced to come to terms with a new life once the equilibrium of his family home has been shattered by the ousting of his father.

Gabriel's Gift

My Son the Fanatic

Shahid, a young man from the provinces, comes to London after the death of his father. He finds himself embroiled in a battle between liberalism and fundamentalism in a London so noisily exuberant there is scarcely room for his arguments.

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