Hanif Kureishi

Un triángulo amoroso entre un viejo director de cine, su esposa y un joven crítico. Una novela feroz, procaz, desoladora y muy divertida.Waldo, notorio cineasta que conoció la gloria, los premios y el aplauso de critica y publico, permanece ahora postrado en una silla de ruedas por los achaques de su avanzada edad. Sin embargo, su libido sigue incolume, y su mujer, Zee india casada con un pakistani y con dos hijas, a la que sedujo durante un rodaje y se trajo a Londres, accede a sus peticiones de desnudarse ante el y mostrarle sus partes intimas.El tercer vertice del triangulo en el centro de esta novela lo ocupa Eddie, critico de cine, admirador de Waldo y ahora amante de Zee ante las narices del viejo director. Este espia a la pareja, documenta sus sospechas y maquina su venganza con la ocasional ayuda de Anita, actriz y amiga, dispuesta a indagar en el turbulento y truculento pasado de Eddie...Kureishi explora en esta novela breve las desdichas de la vejez y la decrepitud fisica, los sordidos conflictos matrimoniales y sexuales y los mecanismos secretos de la creatividad artistica. Y lo hace dando rienda suelta a su humor canalla y a las pinceladas pornograficas y escatologicas. Resultado: una novela contundente y salvaje, que maneja con ejemplar equilibrio la mezcla de las situaciones descacharrantes con el desgarrador patetismo de los personajes. Carcajadas y desolacion como ingredientes de una indagacion visceral en las miserias y quimeras de la vida contemporanea, a traves de un triangulo amoroso que rebosa lujuria, odio, resentimiento, mezquindades, desenfreno, procacidades y otros excesos. Una tragicomedia negrisima y feroz que no va a dejar a ningun lector indiferente.

Im going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house. When Parvezs son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes hes taking drugs and selling his possessions to pay for them. His fellow taxi drivers are triumphant: they knew something was wrong. Bettina, the prostitute Parvez regularly drives home, tells him what signs to look out for. But nothing is physically different about Ali except that he is growing a beard - and praying five times a day. He condemns his father for drinking alcohol and eating bacon, and assures him that the Law of Islam will rule the world. First published in March 1994, Hanif Kureishis comedy of assimilation is both uproariously funny and so prescient its barely funny at all.

Rayon : Roman Editeur : Christian Bourgois éditeur Date de parution : 2005 Description : In-8, 248 pages, broché, occasion, bon état. Envois quotidiens du mardi au samedi. Les commandes sont adressées sous enveloppes bulles. Photos supplementaires de l'ouvrage sur simple demande. Reponses aux questions dans les 12h00. Librairie Le Piano-Livre. Merci. Reference catalogue vendeur: 15861. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks

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 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

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.

The centrepiece of Hanif Kureishi's brilliant new collection of fiction is a novella that delves into the fascinating concept of personal identity, and the extent to which this is rooted in our physical being. Middle-aged playwright Adam is amazed to be approached by a shadowy organisation and offered the chance to trade in his decrepit body for a much younger model. He takes up the offer for a six-month period, and his consciousness is duly transplanted into the handsome body of his choice. But Adam soon finds that his new flesh brings with it grave and unforeseen dangers...

"Un giorno dell'estate 1989, mentre camminavo lungo Portobello Road, fui seguito da un ragazzo di circa ventun'anni. Spacciava droga, come molti altri li attorno, ma con uno stile inconsueto. Non borbottava sottovoce con aria spaurita, ne sembrava aggressivo, ma spiegava le virtu delle varie droghe, descrivendone in tono lirico gli effetti." E' da questo incontro che nasce a Kureishi l'idea di una storia da raccontare ma il film (nato da questa sceneggiatura) non e solo un film sulla droga. E' la storia di un giovane in cerca di un paio di scarpe decenti che gli permettano di trovare lavoro. E' la storia di una Londra fatta di "dropout" senza casa e di gente dei quartieri alti tra cui l'unico ponte e la droga. Ed e anche una storia d'amore.

"Jamal e uno psicanalista che vive da solo a Londra. È separato, ha un figlio che adora, una sorella difficile e un caro amico che in eta avanzata scopre le gioie del sesso non convenzionale. Ha molti ricordi, diverse avventure da raccontare, ma soprattutto ha un segreto che lo tormenta da decenni: il peso di un omicidio, tragicamente legato alla scomparsa del suo primo amore, Ajita. Ecco allora che cio che e stato ritorna prepotentemente a cercarlo e a metterlo di fronte a una scelta, a una possibilita di riscatto. Hanif Kureishi torna con un affresco che parte dagli anni Settanta e arriva, fra droghe e cultura pop, fino ai turbamenti della Londra moderna. "

"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. "

"Tutti i racconti del celebre scrittore, che torna con un affresco dopo laltro, ripercorrendo luoghi e periodi storici, a quelli che sono i temi piu cari alla sua narrativa. Partendo dagli anni Settanta e arrivando fino ai giorni nostri, fra droghe, cultura pop e amori tormentati, lautore tratteggia i suoi personaggi, creature fragili figli di un tempo instabile, sospesi in uno stato di incertezza e precarieta dellessere, eppur sempre stabilmente in equilibrio fra culture, genti, classi sociali eterogenee, variopinte, vitali. "

Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to their coming of age in the 1970s, he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved in this colourful and warm novel of London life.

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 his 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 is the glamorous and ambitious Eva, and when 'the buddha of suburbia' runs off with her to a crumbling flat in Barons Court, Karim's life becomes changed in ways that even he had never dreamed of.

Jamal, psychanalyste d'une cinquantaine d'années, connaît un certain succès. Suivant le rythme de ses consultations, professionnelles et amicales, sa vie est marquée par la régularité et l'écoute. Cette sérénité apparente masque néanmoins de nombreux tourments personnels. Jamal n'a rien oublié de son enfance dans la banlieue des années 1970, d'un premier amour, dont il n'a pas fait le deuil, et d'un événement tragique, qui continue à le hanter... Tout vacille lorsque deux témoins d'un passé longtemps refoulé resurgissent dans sa vie... Hanif Kureishi restitue avec brio la liberté, l'euphorie et les luttes sociales qui ont marqué l'Angleterre durant quarante ans. Il donne vie à des personnages magnifiques qui cherchent à procurer un sens à leur existence chaotique.

Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later, as he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved. Like "The Buddha of Suburbia", "Something to Tell You" is full-to-bursting with energy, at times comic, at times painfully tender. With unfailing deftness of touch Kureishi has created a memorable cast of recognisable individuals, all of whom wrestle with their own limits as human beings, haunted by the past until they find it within themselves to forgive.

Something to Tell You follows the fortunes of a successful psychoanalyst who, as the book opens, is reflecting on his coming-of-age in 1970s suburbia, on his first love (a relationship that continues to haunt him), and on a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. The book brilliantly captures that decade's sense of sexual freedom, and the exhilaration of the drug culture - as well as the violent struggle between the forces of labour and capital. The events of those years provide a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later as the characters face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved. Something to Tell You speaks directly to our nation's concerns and anxieties, and to our need for love. Like The Buddha of Suburbia, it is full-to-bursting with energy as the characters struggle with desire. At times comic, at times painfully tender, the book is a reflection on the nature of relations between men and women, parents and children. With unfailing deftness of touch Kureishi has created a memorable cast of recognisable individuals, all of whom wrestle with their own limits as human beings, haunted by the past until they find it within themselves to forgive.

Jamal és un conegut psicoanalista a qui persegueixen el seu primer amor i un acte brutal de violència del qual no ha pogut escapar mai. Mirant enrere a la seva joventut dels anys setanta, construeix un escenari ple de vida per al drama que es desenvolupa tres dècades més tard, quan ell i els seus amics s'acosten al caire de la mitjana edat amb els traumes de la joventut encara per resoldre. Com a El buda dels suburbis, Una cosa per explicar-vos és ple a vessar d'energia, de vegades còmica, de vegades dolorosament tendra. Amb gran habilitat compositiva, Kureishi ha creat una formació de personatges recognoscibles i memorables, cadascun dels quals lluita amb els propis límits com a ésser humà, perseguits pel passat fins que aprenen a perdonar.