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Nick Hornby demuestra en pequeñas piezas de orfebrería como esta hilarante NippleJesus que sus historias funcionan con la precisión de un reloj suizo a la vez que con el presunto descuido de aquel que esta contando una anecdota que sabe tan profunda como un pozo sin fondo. En este caso, la historia de un rudo tipo cualquiera enamorado de un cuadro. El segundo relato, Strangers When We Meet , es una pequeña joya del magnifico escritor britanico Hanif Kureishi que pone a prueba a su autor, especialista en radiografiar la sociedad inglesa contemporanea, en las distancias cortas con una adi

The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi's first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention, a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the life of a young Pakistani growing up in 1970s Britain. Karim lives with his mum and dad in a suburb of South London and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big city. But hsi father is no ordinary dad, he is 'the buddha of suburbia', a strange and compelling figure whose powers of meditation hold a circle of would-be mystics spellbound with the fascinations of the East. Among his disciples in the glamorous and ambitious Eva, and when the 'buddha of suburbia' runs off with her to a crumbling flat in Baron's Court, Karim's life becomes changed in ways that even he had never dreamed of ... Hanif Kureishi is the author of novels (including Something to Tell You, The Buddha of Suburbia, The Black Album and Intimacy), story collections (Love in a Blue Time, Midnight All Day, The Body), plays (including Outskirts, Borderline and Sleep With Me), and screenplays (including My Beautiful Laundrette, My Son the Fanatic and Venus).

Over 12 years, Hanif Kureishi has written short fiction. The stories deal withthe complexities of relationships as well as the joys of children...

A remarkable insight into the birth of a writer, and the moving discovery of family secrets. When Hanif Kureishi discovers an abandoned manuscript of his father's his understanding of the family history is transformed. So begins a journey which takes Kureishi through his father's privileged childhood by the sea in Bombay, to the trauma of partition and to his adult life hidden away in the suburbs of Bromley - his days spent as a minor functionary in the Pakistan embassy in London, his nights writing prose, hopeful of one day receiving literary recognition. This is a book about his father's failed career as a writer and the beginnings of Kureishi's successful career as one - as his father looks on with pride and perhaps envy. A tantalizingly told, artful, and elegant memoir - this is an unexpected delight from the novelist (The Buddha of Suburbia) and screenwriter (My Beautiful Landerette). Through its development, it is suffused with warmth and charm, illumined by the author's wisdom and literacy. Kureishi is a Londoner, but his family came from Bombay - the cataclysm of partition ended their life of privilege, and Kureishi's father wound up a minor official at the London Pakistan Embassy, with a modest home out in the suburbs. The father wrote and wrote unpublished novelizations of his life-story, and it is the discovery of manuscripts, the remnants of life-long literary ambitions, which catalyzes this moving and compelling tribute, wherein the son chronicles his development which has enabled him to attain the success that always eluded his father. This is a compelling, absorbing, and succinct masterwork. (Kirkus UK)

A 60-something writer named Adam gets the opportunity to trade in his rapidly aging body for a younger model, and after he does--and after the initial euphoria--the results are not quite what he expected. For one thing, his life is in danger....

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:

Situaciones inquietantes en las que todos nos podemos sentir identificados ya que sus protagonistas son tan humanos en sus reacciones como cualquiera de nosotros. La espléndida madurez de un autor en unos relatos escritos con humor cínico y contundencia hiriente que van directos al corazón del lector, o a su estómago, en forma de certero puñetazo.

Le Corps rassemble plusieurs nouvelles où Hanif Kureishi esquisse les obsessions et les fantasmes de l'homme moderne, tyrannisé par le temps qui passe et la peur de rater sa vie. Il y campe un écrivain en perte de vitesse qui échange ses rhumatismes et son ventre proéminent contre la plastique d'un éphèbe, décrit la rencontre d'un couple avec ses voisins, véritable miroir de sa propre vacuité, ou interroge les rapports de filiation. Si la mixité et la vie urbaine estompent parfois les repères et dénouent les liens primordiaux, Kureishi s'abstient de tout désespoir, préférant cette distanciation du regard qui fait son style, une écriture à la fois intense et contenue, révélatrice d'émotions trop bien dissimulées.

The protagonist of this novel is a 15-year-old North London schoolboy called Gabriel. He is forced to come to terms with a new life, and use his gift for painting in order to make sense of his world, once the equilibrium of the family has been shattered by his father's departure.

"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".