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Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England - but now, in his early 70s, his reputation is fading, sales have dried up, and his new wife has expensive taste. Harry, a young writer, is commissioned to write a biography to revitalise both Mamoon's career and his bank balance. Harry greatly admires Mamoon's work and wants to uncover the truth of the artist's life. Harry's publisher seeks a more naked truth, a salacious tale of sex and scandal that will generate headlines. Meanwhile Mamoon himself is mining a different vein of truth altogether. Harry and Mamoon find themselves in a battle of wills, but which of them will have the last word? The ensuing struggle for dominance raises issues of love and desire, loyalty and betrayal, and the frailties of age versus the recklessness of youth. Hanif Kureishi has created a tale brimming with youthful exuberance, as hilarious as it is touching, where words have the power to forge a world.

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.

Amongst a batch of papers, Hanif Kureishi discovered an abandoned manuscript - a novel, written by his father. And so begins a journey which takes him through his father's childhood by the sea in India to an adult life in the suburbs of Bromley. My Ear at His Heart offers remarkable insight into Hanif Kureishi's literary calling, coming from the ashes of his father's own attempts years before.

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Londres, fin des années soixante-dix. Haroon Amir, dandy indien de banlieue, enseigne le bouddhisme à des Londoniens néophytes et ébahis. Expériences sexuelles, culturelles et hallucinogènes se mêlent gaiement pour le plus grand plaisir de Karim, fils du Bouddha. Mais celui-ci est tiraillé par sa double origine, indo-musulmane et anglaise. D'un côté, il y a la communauté "paki", en mal d'intégration avec l'oncle Anwar, Jamila la cousine militante et Changez, l'époux déboussolé. De l'autre, sa famille anglaise, en mal de repères, mais débrouillarde et ambitieuse. Au milieu, Londres, ses étoiles et la célébrité en perspective. Karim se lance alors dans le grand bain. Mais très vite arrivent les années quatre-vingt. Haroon, adepte du taoïsme et du Kama-Sutra, quitte le domicile conjugal pour une ex-baba devenue designer branchée, c'est désormais le temps de la réussite à tout prix. No Future, le meilleur ami de Karim, vire punk, façon Sid Vicious, finis les hippies bonjour les yuppies. Les golden boys et le thatcherisme ne sont plus très loin. Le livre de Kureishi, salué par Salman Rushdie, offre une vision étonnante de l'Angleterre des années 70-80, à travers le regard d'un jeune Indien. Entre My Beautiful Laundrette et La Grande Escroquerie du rock'n'roll. Même si, parfois, on se perd un peu dans le mélange des genres, son côté irrévérencieux, provocateur et drôle est plutôt rafraîchissant. --Stellio Paris

Nejnovější román známého britského prozaika. Hlavním hrdinou nového vtipného, křehkého románu Hanifa Kureishiho je patnáctiletý chlapec Gabriel ze severního Londýna, který je nucen vyrovnat se s novým způsobem života poté, co je rovnováha jeho rodinného zázemí do základů otřesena rozchodem rodičů a následným odchodem otce z domu. Ve snaze postarat se sám o sebe a zároveň poskytnout citovou podporu svým zmateným a tápajícím rodičům je Gabriel nucen rychle dospět. Jedinou oporou mu je duchovní spojení s jeho zesnulým dvojčetem Archiem. Náhodné setkání s imaginární rockovou hvězdou 70. let, Lesterem Jonesem, vykrystalizuje do bouřlivé citové změny v Gabrielově nitru a pomůže mu objevit jeho „dar“ a naučit se ho používat.

A wonderfully colourful, warm and epic novel of London life, love, sex and regret from one of Britain's greatest contemporary writers. 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 and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved. Like The Buddha of Sub urbia, Something to Tell You is full-to-bursting with energy as the characters struggle with their desires. At times comic, at times painfully tender, the book explores the relationships between men and women, parents and children. With unfailing def tness of touch Kureishi has created a memorable cast of recognisable individuals, all of whom wrestle with their own limits as human being, haunted by the past until they find it within themselves to forgive.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.

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 collection contains his controversial story Weddings and Beheadings, a well as his prophetic My Son the Fanatic, which exposes the religious tensions within the muslim family unit. As with his novels and screenplays, Kureishi has his finger on the pulse of the political tensions in society and how they affect people's everyday lives.