Hanif Kureishi

Un libro sincero, desgarrador, conmovedor. La escritura como salvavidas. En la Navidad de 2022, mientras pasaba las vacaciones en Roma con su pareja, Isabella, Hanif Kureishi sufrió un desvanecimiento y se desplomo. Al recuperar la consciencia se encontro en el suelo, rodeado de un charco de sangre, y no tardo en descubrir que era incapaz de moverse. Una vez en el hospital, los medicos confirmaron que habia quedado paraplejico. Este libro testimonial que es mucho mas que un libro testimonial esta escrito en forma de despachos de urgencia, o como entradas de un diario dictado durante su estancia en varios hospitales, primero en Roma y despues, ya de vuelta a casa, en Londres.Una escritura fragmentaria, a pedazos, en la que el autor relata su dura realidad diaria, su completa dependencia de los demas, la dificil asimilacion de su nuevo estado, las sesiones de fisioterapia con las que recuperar algo de sensibilidad y movilidad en las extremidades, la relacion con el personal medico, la incipiente amistad con otros pacientes y las tenues esperanzas ante cada pequeño signo de posible mejoria. Kureishi, sin embargo, no se limita a sentar acta de su dia a dia hospitalario, que cuenta sin paños calientes, sino que tambien evoca su infancia, el descubrimiento de la literatura, los primeros trabajos en el mundo del teatro, la fama que le llevo a visitar Hollywood nominado al Oscar por el guion de Mi hermosa lavanderia, sus aventuras sexuales o la amistad con autores como Salman Rushdie.Estas paginas, llenas de jugosas reflexiones sobre el oficio y el sentido de la escritura como acto creativo, se convierten para el en un arma de combate: un modo de asimilar y al mismo tiempo rebelarse contra su situacion. Constituyen un relato testimonial e intimo, pero tambien una nueva muestra de la prosa vivida y visceral de Kureishi, que no rehuye lo carnal y lo escatologico. Un libro sincero, desgarrador, conmovedor. La escritura como salvavidas.

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.

"Mariti e mogli chiamati da incontri o avvenimenti inattesi a fare i conti con la propria vita. Persone di mezza eta che si vedono protagoniste, con un po'' di nostalgia, di una vita lontana da quella sognata negli anni 70. Artisti che vengono a patti con i propri bisogni, ma non per questo smettono di sognare. Hanif Kureishi ci regala storie e personaggi fra i piu riusciti del suo mondo narrativo - penetrandone le attese, le delusioni e le felicita restituendoci, come solo lui sa fare, umori, tremori e incanti della vita quotidiana, in tutte le sue contraddizioni, fra ""matrimoni e decapitazioni"", come recita il titolo di una delle storie incluse nel volume. "

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.

En Mamoon Azam és un monstre sagrat, una patum de la literatura les vendes del qual decreixen. I sense les vendes, li costa mantenir la casa de camp on viu amb la seva actual muller, la Liana, una italiana amb caracter i mes jove que ell. La Liana, dacord amb el desenfrenat editor den Mamoon i amb el beneplacit poc convençut de lescriptor, ordeix un pla per millorar les finances familiars: encarregar una biografia que rellanci el novellista.Pero la vida dmaquest autor indi que va arribar a la metropolis per estudiar i va decidir convertir-se en un perfecte gentleman britanic no esta lliure depisodis escabrosos. Abans de la Liana hi va haver altres dones: la Peggy, que va morir amargada i malalta, i la Marion, a qui va sotmetre a practiques sexuals humiliants. Tot plegat es esbrinat pel biograf, en Harry Johnson, a traves de cartes, diaris i entrevistes amb el mateix Mamoon i amb persones que el van coneixer. Pero els fantasmes i les tensions no nomes emergeixen del passat, ja que la parella den Harry passa uns dies amb ell a casa den Mamoon i lescriptor hi estableix una relacio peculiar. Mentrestant, la Liana pateix atacs de gelosia, en Harry sembolica amb la criada i el biografiat treu al biograf dades sobre la seva voracitat sexual, la seva mare boja i altres aspectes foscos de la seva vida.I aixi, entre el vell escriptor i el jove aprenent sentaula un perillos joc de manipulacio en una novella que parla del desig, la culpa, la luxuria, els dimonis interiors, les relacions de parella, les fantasies sexuals i el poder de vegades temible de les paraules.

This is the new novel from Hanif Kureishi: an outrageous, clever and very funny story of sex, lies, art and what defines a 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.

Mamoon Azam, écrivain d''origine indienne de renommée mondiale, voit sa notoriété décliner à 70 ans passés. Afin de réactiver l''intérêt pour son ouvre. Harry Johnson se voit confier la mission de ré

The Black Album is the second novel by Hanif Kureishi, one of the most praised and influential writers of our times. It is set in London in 1989, the year after the second acid-fuelled summer of love - also the year in which the Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced his infamous fatwa upon Salman Rushdie.The Black Album is a portrait of a young Asian man being pulled in conflicting directions: one way by the lure of sexual and hallucinogenic hedonism, another by the austere certitudes of Islam. Shahid Hasan, a clean-cut kid from the provinces, comes to London after the death of his father. He makes his home in a Kilburn bedsit, falls in love with postmodernist college lecturer Deedee Osgood, and soon finds himself passionately embroiled in a spiritual battle between liberalism and fundamentalism.

Love in a Blue Time is a brilliant collection of stories by the bestselling author of The Buddha of Suburbia. This time, Hanif Kureishis subject is the difficult, serious business of love - and hate. His stories have all the qualities of his novels: they are funny, inventive, bawdy, and aggressively contemporary. The characters that stride out of the pages of Love in a Blue Time, however damaged, deranged or despicable, are united by one thing: they are all creatures of strong desire.In this haunting, troubling collection of short stories, Hanif Kureishi has finally embraced the decadence that has lain in wait for him . . . A tense, desolate and consuming collection.ObserverThe whole collection buzzes with anger and angst.Time Out

It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds he remembers the ups and downs of his relationship with Susan. In an unforgettable, and often pitiless, reflection of their time together he analyses the agonies and the joys of trying to make a life with another person.

Kureishis 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 husbands 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 sons 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.

Jamal Khan, a psychoanalyst in his fifties living in London, is haunted by memories of his teens: his first love, Ajita; the exhilaration of sex, drugs and politics; and a brutal act of violence which changed his life for ever. 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, Jamals teenage traumas make a shocking reappearance in his present life.A great comic writer and a peerless connoisseur of the human mystery.IndependentA novel that describes with such elegant seriousness the fear of ageing, the inanition of pleasure, the survival of love, the longing to understand and be understood.Sunday TelegraphA vital, teeming, panoramic, immersive novel.Time OutThere is more that is worth thinking about in Something to Tell You than in the work of almost any other current British novelist.Evening Standard

In Le Weekend, a couple - married for 30 years - spend their wedding anniversary in Paris. However, the romantic city soon becomes a backdrop to their increasingly bitter disputes about the state of their marriage - and their lives. But, as they gradually become part of the rhythm of the city - its cafes and monuments - the tension that has burdened them fades as they re-discover the playfulness and anarchy of their youth. Their melancholy dissolves in a sense of delight in irresponsibility, and gives them a new lease of life

My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost.As the teenage hero of Hanif Kureishis debut novel, Karim is desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre announces itself, he starts to win the sort of attention he has been craving, albeit with some rude and raucous results.

Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse PrizeMamoon 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 Mamoons career and his bank balance. Harry greatly admires Mamoons work and wants to uncover the truth of the artists life. Harrys 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.

The stories in Midnight All Day show a contemporary master at the top of his form, acclaimed by one reviewer for his depiction of 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.We are unerring in our choice of lovers, particularly when we require the wrong person. There is an instinct, magnet or aerial which seeks the unsuitable. The wrong person is, of course, right for something - to punish, bully, or humiliate us, let us down, leave us for dead,or, worst of all, give us the impression that they are not inappropriate, but almost right, thus hanging us in loves limbo. Not just anyone can do this.In this astonishing collection of stories, Hanif Kureishi confirms his reputation as Britains foremost chronicler of the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. The characters in Midnight All Day are familiar to all of us: frustrated and intoxicated, melancholic and sensitive, yet capable of great cruelty, and, if necessary, willing to break the constraints of an old life to make way for the new.

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The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is a dreamy teenager, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre announces itself, Karim starts to win the sort of attention he has been craving, albeit with some rude and raucous results.

One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don''t need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I am sure they are making love in Zenab''s bedroom which is next to mine.Waldo, a feted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment. Frail and frustrated, he is cared for by his lovely younger wife, Zee. But when he suspects that Zee is beginning an affair with Eddie, ''more than an acquaintance and less than a friend for over thirty years,'' Waldo is pressed to action: determined to expose the couple, he sets himself first to prove his suspicions correct - and then to enact his revenge.Written with characteristic black humour and with an acute eye for detail, Kureishi''s eagerly awaited novella will have his readers dazzled once again by a brilliant mind at work.