The Word and the Bomb - 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 ...

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 ...

The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi

with some people who haven’t read it, as it was made into a BBC drama series in 1993. More importantly it won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel in 1990. Hanif Kureishi (HK from now on) is probably better known for his 2 excellent films, My Beautiful Launderette, and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. Well, I think so anyway, because I’ve seen them, and I didn’t see The Buddha of Suburbia. Subjective stuff, I know, but what the heck, it’s Thursday, an anniversary of sorts for me as coincidentally it’s the day I was born on. This is HKs’ debut novel, and it is sublime, well worthy of winning prizes, which is why I mustered up the energy to ...

The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi

with some people who haven’t read it, as it was made into a BBC drama series in 1993. More importantly it won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel in 1990. Hanif Kureishi (HK from now on) is probably better known for his 2 excellent films, My Beautiful Launderette, and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. Well, I think so anyway, because I’ve seen them, and I didn’t see The Buddha of Suburbia. Subjective stuff, I know, but what the heck, it’s Thursday, an anniversary of sorts for me as coincidentally it’s the day I was born on. This is HKs’ debut novel, and it is sublime, well worthy of winning prizes, which is why I mustered up the energy to ...

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 ...

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 ...