Hanif Kureishi Libri

E' una notte lunga per Jay: ha deciso di lasciare la compagna e i suoi due figli, dopo anni trascorsi tra litigi e riappacificazioni. Mentre si prepara ad abbandonare la sua casa, non può fare a meno di ripensare alla sua vita, di rivivere le trasgressioni dell'adolescenza, i sogni mai realizzati e la paura delle responsabilità. Gli amori passati, gli amici, scorrono davanti ai suoi occhi come in un film, mettendo a nudo tutte le sue debolezze. E' davvero deciso ad abbandonare la noiosa tranquillità quotidiana, rischiando l'affetto dei figli? Riuscirà a chiudersi dietro le spalle quella porta e diventare un altro uomo? L'alba è vicina, non c'è più tempo per continuare a guardare dentro se stesso e scegliere se non voltarsi più indietro.

"Mi chiamo Karim Amir e sono un vero inglese, più o meno." Comincia così "Il Budda delle periferie", romanzo con il quale Hanif Kureishi esordiva nella narrativa nel 1990, dopo aver scritto le sceneggiature di "My beautiful Laundrette" e "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" e dopo aver scritto e diretto "London Kills Me". Il libro è un racconto di formazione che narra le peripezie sentimentali e le avventure di vita di Karim, adolescente metà inglese e metà indiano nella periferia londinese degli anni Settanta.

With a foreword by Daniel BarenboimMusic at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward Said's essays and articles on music.

Hanif Kureishi was voted the Most Promising Playwright of the Year in 1981 by the London Theatre Critics for his plays "Borderline" and "Outskirts". This selection of plays shows his development as a writer from his own perspective and from the perspective of the British theatre of the 1970s.

'Kureishi's screenplay is one of his most focused and engaging since My Beautiful Laundrette.' Allan Hunter, Screen International At sixty-five years of age, May fears that life has passed her by - that she has become just another invisible old lady whose days are more or less numbered. When she and her husband travel down from the north to visit their grown-up children in west London, she finds them characteristically inattentive. But then her husband's unexpected death pulls the ground from under her, and she subsequently embarks on a passionate affair with Darren, a man half her age, who is renovating her son's house and sleeping with her daughter, Paula. In the midst of this tumultuous situation, May begins to understand that it can take a lifetime to feel truly alive.

The book is characterized by its blend of humor and emotional depth, showcasing remarkable storytelling that resonates with readers. It captures poignant moments while also delivering laughter, making it a compelling read that balances light-heartedness with significant themes. The narrative is crafted to evoke a range of emotions, leaving a lasting impression on its audience.

This acclaimed collection charts the course of Pop from its underground origins through its low and high art phases to its current omnipresence; it takes in fiction, reportage, fashion, art and fantasy as filtered through pop music and includes work by Michael Bracewell, Angela Carter, Nick Cohn, Bob Dylan, Simon Garfield, Nelson George, Germaine Greer, Peter Guralnick, John Lennon, Norman Mailer, Greil Marcus, Iggy Pop, Neil Tennant, Lou Reed, Simon Reynolds, Hunter S. Thompson, Nick Tosches, Andy Warhol, Tom Wolfe and Malcolm X, amongst others. Covering more than 50 years of writing from 1942 on, The Faber Book of Pop is the most stimulating collection of writing on popular music ever published.

The essential collection from one of Britain's most celebrated and controversial writers.

A new paperback edition of Hanif Kureishi's wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays.

An anarchic coming-of-age novel that explores and celebrates Britain in the seventies.

Intimacy - now a film - analyzes the agonies and joys of being connected to another person. Jay, who is leaving his partner and their two sons, reflects on the vicissitudes of his relationship with Susan. This volume includes two short stories from Love in a Blue Time and Midnight All Day.

The outbreak of the Iraq war and its aftermath, plus the bombings in London, have stimulated Hanif Kureishi to write about the great divide between the East and the West - the gulf between fundamentalist Islam and Western values. This book is a collection of his controversial writings.

What if you were middle-aged and were offered the chance to trade in your sagging flesh for a much younger and more pleasing model? This is the situation in which the main character of The Body finds himself. Taking the plunge, he embarks on an odyssey of hedonism, but soon finds himself regretting what he has left behind as the responsibilities he thought he had sloughed off now begin to come home to him. Sinister forces are pursuing him, wanting possession of his 'body', and he finds himself in a no-man's-land, uncertain which way to turn. Praise for Hanif Kureishi's previous collection, Midnight All Day:

'Hanif Kureishi's literary memoir explores his relationship with his father, a failed writer. Kurieshi is, of course, hugely successful...' Esquire'This is an ambitious book. Kureshi - free-associating with what feels like unmitigated honesty - successfully conveys the impression that in this book he has actually given us himself.' Sunday Times'Deeply involving, highly intelligent and, in what it doesn't say rather than what it does, profoundly sad.' Evening Standard'I don't think he has done anything as good, in any medium, as this moving and fiercely honest book.' Guardian

Seit Stephen Frears 1985 die Geschichte „über einen schwulen Pakistani, der einen Waschsalon betreibt“, verfilmte, gilt Kureishi als einer der wichtigsten multikulturellen Autoren Großbritanniens. Die Themen Rassenkonflikte, Homosexualität, Klassenschranken, soziale Gegensätze, Jugendarbeitslosigkeit und das vom Thatcherismus gepredigte Streben nach wirtschaft- lichem Erfolg werden innerhalb einer bewegenden Liebesgeschichte unaufdringlich, charmant und fern jeder Schwarzweißmalerei dargestellt. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch

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.

Tells the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of author's acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka's relationship with his father, readers will find Kureishi also exploring the topics that he continues to make new, and make his own.

Performing a deft metaphorical evisceration of Sigmund Freud’s classic 1919 essay that delved deeply into the tradition of horror writing, this freshly contemporary collection of literary interpretations reintroduces to the world Freud’s compelling theory of das unheimliche —or, the uncanny. Specifically designed to challenge the creative boundaries of some of the most famed and respected horror writers working today—such as A. S. Byatt, Christopher Priest, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Matthew Holness, and the indomitable Ramsey Campbell—this anatomically precise experiment encapsulates what the uncanny represents in the 21st century. Masterfully narrated with the benefit of unique perspectives on what exactly it is that goes bump in the night, this chilling modern collective is not only an essential read for fans of horror but also an insightful and intriguing introduction to the greats of the genre at their gruesome best.

Hanif Kureishi, selber in einem pakistanisch-englischen Elternhaus geboren, schildert in 'My Son the Fanatic' den bis zum totalen Zerwürfnis führenden Konflikt zwischen dem aus Pakistan stammenden Vater Parvez und seinem Sohn Farid. Der Sohn, der als Sittenwächter auftritt, wirft dem liberal gesinnten Vater Unmoral und Prinzipienlosigkeit vor. Farids Rebellion gegen die westliche Wertewelt lässt ihn zum Fundamentalisten werden. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

Love in a Blue Time is Hanif Kureishi's first collection of short fiction, gathering ten stories that explore identity and its relationship to sexuality, ethnicity, and gender. The stories are set in the post-Thatcher Britain of the mid-1990s, presenting a vision of a London depressed by economic stagnation, social disintegration, and the ubiquity of mass-mediated culture. Although Kureishi's exploration of these themes is rooted in a specific space and time, his book has broader resonances. Its exploration of the radicalization of Muslim youth in Britain became particularly pertinent after September 11, 2001, and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Its treatment of relationships would be developed in Kureishi's later work, notably his controversial 1998 novella Intimacy.

'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William BoydComic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction.

A collection of stories that depicts a lost generation of men: those shaped by the sixties, disoriented by the eighties and bereft of a personal and political map in the nineties.

A wonderfully colourful, warm and epic novel of London life, love, sex and regret from one of Britain's greatest contemporary writers.

The protagonist of Hanif Kureishi's delightful novel is Gabriel, a fifteen-year-old North London schoolboy trying to come to terms with a new life, after the equilibrium of his family home has been shattered by the ousting of his father. Fending for himself, as well as providing emotional support to his confused (and confusing) parents, Gabriel is forced to grow up quickly. The only support he can draw upon is from his remembered twin brother, Archie, and from his own 'gift', which is accompanied by sensations that urge him into areas of life requiring the utmost courage and faith. A chance visit to seventies rock star Lester Jones crystallizes the turbulent emotions inside Gabriel, and helps him to recognize and engage with his gift . . . 'A charming, light-textured fable about talent, about how single-minded creativity might embrace and even be buoyed by the heartbreaking muddle of everyday life.' Observer

Hanif Kureishi's short, sharp tale of revenge is diabolical fun Fiona Wilson The Times

As he and his best friend Henry attempt to make the sometimes painful, sometimes comic transition to their divorced middle age, balancing the conflicts of desire and dignity, Jamal's teenage traumas make a shocking return into his present life.

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.

Povídka klasika ruské literatury, napsaná roku 1891, je příběhem dvou mužů, jejichž rozdílné názory a postoje je přivedou až k souboji.

Jamal, brillant psychiatre d'origine pakistanaise, mène une vie tranquille, auréolée de succès, dans la banlieue de Londres. Une façade de réussite qui ne laisse rien transparaître des troubles profonds qui le hantent. Jusqu'au jour où un ancien compagnon de route ravive la mémoire d'un amour perdu, brisé par le crime et la honte. Brillant, profond et drôle, Hanif Kureishi radiographie comme personne la société anglaise des années 1970 à nos jours et fait preuve d'une acuité hors du commun pour décrire les tourments d'une génération en conflit perpétuel avec ses origines et son passé, ses désirs et ses regrets.

Ed. and annoted by Michael Mitchell

In ›Blau ist die Liebe‹ thematisiert Hanif Kureishi die menschlichen Sehnsüchte und Abgründe, indem er die Suche nach Erfüllung durch Sex und exzessives Leben schildert. Die Protagonisten erreichen jedoch nie die ersehnte Nähe. Kureishi erzählt leidenschaftlich und fesselnd von der paradoxen Natur der Seele.