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"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. "

"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. "

"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.

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...

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 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.

A thriller set in London in 1989, against a background of raves, ecstasy, religious ferment and sexual passion.

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Hate skews reality even more than love. In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi'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: growing up and growing old; betrayal and loyalty; imagination and repression; marriage and fatherhood. The collection ends with a bravura piece of very personal reportage about the conman who stole Kureishi's life savings - a man who provoked both admiration and disgust, obsession and revulsion, love and hate.

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 fêted 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.

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.

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)

Adam es un escritor de más de sesenta años, una edad en que las negociaciones entre el deseo y el cuerpo son cada vez más difíciles, y la juventud es ya el paraíso que hemos perdido para siempre. Hasta que una noche, en una fiesta que da una amiga de su generacion, pero donde tambien es posible encontrar jovenes esplendidos que todavia se visten para exhibir sus cuerpos y no sus vestimentas, alguien le habla de una operacion que realizan en secreto en una clinica de Londres, donde los muy ricos, o muy deseosos, o muy desesperados, pueden transplantar sus cerebros a un cuerpo nuevo. Adam no tarda mucho en decidirse, y pocos dias despues le proporcionan el magnifico fisico de un jugador de futbol italiano, con el rostro de un Alain Delon joven. Y una nueva identidad, y un hermoso, grueso pene que se dedicara a usar tanto como pueda, y con quien pueda. Imprevisible, divertida y terrible, una obra maestra de laconismo y precision, esta novela breve es la pieza fuerte del libro de Kureishi, pero la acompañan algunos de los mejores relatos que ha escrito nunca su autor. Y asi nos encontramos con la extraña, erotica relacion entre una mujer ciega y un niño hijo de emigrados; con un padre que tras una extatica experiencia con otros jovenes quiza pueda aprender a amar a su hijo, con un periodista de mediana edad que descubrira que no hay cura para el mal de vivir, excepto la aceptacion de la fugacidad y la imperfeccion... Es dificil explicar por que Hanif Kureishi es tan buen escritor. Su efecto es acumulativo: nos impresiona con su intensidad, la inteligencia de su mirada. Puede ser muy distante y cruel, pero al mismo tiempo comprende las verdades esenciales de la vida urbana contemporanea... La suya es una ficcion de interiores tormentosos, de dislocacion emocional, de extraños que buscan consuelo los unos en los otros (Jason Cowley, The Observer).

Hanif Kureishi nos cuenta, en esta espléndida recopilación de toda su obra de no ficción de los últimos quince años, una historia fascinante, la suya propia y la de su sociedad. Recorre diversos ámbitos, desde un congreso del partido conservador hasta las salvajes sesiones privadas de unas chicas musulmanas paquistanies que trabajan como strippers, y hacen un numero lesbico en casas particulares para sus fundamentalistas compatriotas; nos ofrece el diario de la filmacion de una de sus peliculas con Stephen Frears, y su primera ?y unica? visita a Pakistan, donde, a pesar de ser y sentirse absolutamente ajeno, no era considerado un extranjero.

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: