Kureishi, Hanif Something to Tell You ISBN 13: 9781416590040

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THE STUNNINGLY ORIGINAL, ICONOCLASTIC, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA RETURNS WITH HIS FINEST, MOST EXUBERANT NOVEL.

In the early 1980s Hanif Kureishi emerged as one of the most compelling new voices in film and fiction. His movies My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and his novel The Buddha of Suburbia captivated audiences and inspired other artists. In Something to Tell You, he travels back to those days of hedonism, activism and glorious creativity. And he explores the lives of that generation now, in a very different London.

Jamal is middle-aged, though reluctant to admit it. He has an ex-wife, a son he adores, a thriving career as a psychoanalyst and vast reserves of unsatisfied desire. "Secrets are my currency," he says. "I deal in them for a living." And he has some of his own. He is haunted by Ajita, his first love, whom he hasn't seen in decades, and by an act of violence he has never confessed.

With great empathy and agility, Kureishi has created an array of unforgettable characters -- a hilarious and eccentric theater director, a covey of charming and defiant outcasts and an ebullient sister who thrives on the fringe. All wrestle with their own limits as human beings; all are plagued by the past until they find it within themselves to forgive.

Comic, wise and unfailingly tender, Something to Tell You is Kureishi's best work to date, brilliant and exhilarating.

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'An entertaining series of glimpses of London's demi-monde, from the late seventies to the present day.' -- The Times

'Engaging ... there's more than enough incident and insight to keep things interesting.'
-- Guardian

'Teeming with unusual characters, acute observations of life in London and insights into the complexities of sex, families and middle age.' -- Sunday Telegraph
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Hanif Kureishi's eagerly anticipated new novel read by Art Malik.

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  • PublisherScribner
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 1416590048
  • ISBN 13 9781416590040
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages384
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