Collected Screenplays - Hanif Kureishi

The Body - Hanif Kureishi

´The Body and Seven Stories´is the first work of fiction I´ve read by Hanif Kureishi (born in 1954), a prolific writer of plays, screenplays (My Beautiful Laundrette) , fiction (The Buddha of Suburbia) and non-fiction for which he´s received numerous awards. The first story is the longest with 126 pages, a novella rather, the other seven vary from 12 to 48 pages. The sheer length and the fact that its title is also the title of the book make the first story stand out, but is it also the best? Let´s have a look. It´s told in the first person perspective by an ageing playwright, Adam, ´´I don´t feel particularly ill, but I am in my mid-sixties . . . My knees and back give ...

Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi

You may recognise the name of Hanif Kureishi without quite realising who he is. Everyone has been raving about him for years, since books like ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’, which won a Whitbread Prize. I was intrigued by his work after his name kept on being mentioned. ‘Intimacy’ is the first of his books that I have read. Novels like Bridget Jone’s Diary have been coming to the forefront of popular books, detailing the life of a, supposedly, average woman, humorously depicting her hang-ups, let downs and the irony of just being her. ‘Intimacy’ shows the less portrayed life of a middle-aged man whose life bores him, whose wife ...

The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi

You like your fiction the way you like your men - snazzy, sexy with a great sense of humour? Try Kureishi for size. Here's a novel for our times which charts the experience of growing up in suburban London -boredom, claustrophobia and the desperate search for an identity the vast majority of us experience in our teens. All this is hampered in Karim's case by the fact he's a bisexual 'Englishman born and bred' - with an Indian father who is masquerading as a Buddhist and having a less than secret affair. The plot is fast and furious - it is no surprise the book was adapted for the small screen as it has a real cinematic feel. Although the tone of the novel ...