Product Description

Hanif Kureishi, author of "The Buddha of Suburbia", is one of a generation of British writers whose experience of the United Kingdom is refracted, socially and culturally, through his Pakistani heritage. The stories in this collection incorporate the humour, bawdiness and aggression of his novels.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #185560 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

Intelligent, entertaining but unevern story collection.
I was excited and refreshed to read the first(title)story in this collection. It was smart, hip, insightful and moved at a rate that was fun after slogging through a lot of modern "literary" fiction. Unfortunately the later stories in the collection were darker, slower and in the case of "Flies"-too self-consciously symbolic("The Turd" seemed too outrageous to take the symbolism seriously). As a guy in late middle age who has long since left drugged-out, lost friends it was refreshing to relive the hilarity, pain and eventual insanity of that wonderfully self-centered life-without-limits.

Just brilliant. A book of emotions.
I first read A Hanif Kureishi's novel at university. And I just loved it. I thought the way those book were written suggested a whole universe I could almost touch. There is no way I can describe it better. The words fly like feathers. And things are described without even being said. It is amazing how Hanif Kureishi manages to create a tunnel of emotions in just few lines. All the stories deserve an award for the truth they carry with them.

Brilliant writing
Kureishi's collection of short stories perfectly captures a confused sense of identity and longing. Excellent