Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi, selber in einem pakistanisch-englischen Elternhaus geboren, schildert in "My Son the Fanatic" den bis zum totalen Zerwürfnis führenden Konflikt zwischen dem aus Pakistan stammenden Vater Parvez und seinem Sohn Farid. Der Sohn, der als Sittenwächter auftritt, wirft dem liberal gesinnten Vater Unmoral und Prinzipienlosigkeit vor. Farids Rebellion gegen die westliche Wertewelt lässt ihn zum Fundamentalisten werden.

Jay gjør seg mange tanker om nærhet og parforhold kvelden før han har tenkt til å forlate sin samboer og to barn. Hvordan han med rette kan påføre dem smerte. Hvor nær man i det hele tatt kan stå hverandre, og hvordan man skaper et samliv.

'Hanif Kureishi's literary memoir explores his relationship with his father, a failed writer. Kurieshi is, of course, hugely successful...' EsquireAmongst a batch of papers, Hanif Kureishi discovered an abandoned manuscript - a novel, written by his father. And so begins a journey which takes him through his father's childhood by the sea in India to an adult life in the suburbs of Bromley. My Ear at His Heart offers remarkable insight into Hanif Kureishi's literary calling, coming from the ashes of his father's own attempts years before. 'This is an ambitious book. Kureshi - free-associating with what feels like unmitigated honesty - successfully conveys the impression that in this book he has actually given us himself.' Sunday Times'Deeply involving, highly intelligent and, in what it doesn't say rather than what it does, profoundly sad.' Evening Standard'I don't think he has done anything as good, in any medium, as this moving and fiercely honest book.' Guardian

Hanif Kureishi's cinematic storytelling embraces a wide spectrum of characters from all classes and nationalities, depicting them with compassion, humour and relish, though never fighting shy of controversy. This volume comprises four of Kureishi's screenplays. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)Omar is a restless young Asian man, caring for his alcoholic father in the hustling London of the mid-1980s. His uncle, a keen Thatcherite, offers Omar an entrepreneurial opportunity to revamp a dingy laundrette, and ambitious Omar rolls up his sleeves, enlisting the assistance of his old school-friend Johnny, who has since fallen in with a gang of neo-fascists. Omar and Johnny soon form an unlikely alliance that leads to business success, as well as other, more intimate surprises. Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)1980s London, and Sammy and Rosie share an 'open' marriage, strings of lovers, and a bohemian existence amidst inner-city turmoil. Sammy's father, Rafi, formerly a government minister in India, visits London as racial tensions rise with the death of a woman in a police raid. Rafi offers Sammy financial assistance if the couple will leave their 'war zone' behind them and produce grandchildren. But Rafi's own shady past threatens to haunt him. London Kills Me (1991)A weekend in the lives of homeless Clint and his pal Muffdiver, youthful veterans of the streets of London, whose chief source of income derives from selling drugs to the wealthier denizens of Notting Hill. But what Clint wants more than anything else is a proper job, and he's been promised a position as a waiter in a restaurant - on the condition that he can come up with a pair of 'sensible' shoes. My Son the Fanatic (1997)Parvez is a Pakistani cab driver in a northern industrial town who chauffeurs young prostitute Bettina. Their gentle friendship grows more tender as Parvez's home life starts to crumble, his son Farid embracing a fundamentalist sect of Islam and rejecting his father's values. When Farid then involves himself with a group committed to purging the town of corruption, Parvez is compelled to choose where his loyalties lie.

Gabriel Bunchin isä Rex soitti aikanaan bassoa Lester Jonesin, rockin androgyynin puolijumalan bändissä. Sitten isä taittoi jalkansa keikalla Pohjois-Suomessa ja putosi kelkasta. Nyt vanhemmat ovat ajautuneet erilleen, äiti outojen taiteilijamiesten joukkoon ja isä pilven- ja viinanhuuruisiin kämppiin.

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In these ten wry and exhilirating stories, Hanif Kureishi, author of "The Buddha of Suburbia, The Black Album," and of the screenplays for "My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, London Kills Me," and "My Son the Fanatic, brilliantly captures the passion and folly of the human comedy. Written over the span of a decade, "Love in a Blue Time" reveals the essence of a generation - from the liberating irreverence of the seventies to the dilemmas and disillusionments of the nineties.

Hanif Kureishi on Lontoon alakulttuurien humoristinen kuvaaja, jonka räävitön 70-luvun ajankuva Esikaupunkien buddha valloitti suomalaiset sekä kirjana että televisiosarjana. Hänen toisen romaaninsa Mustan albumin taustana on vuoden 1989 kulttuurimyllerrys: teknokulttuuri on nupullaan lukuisissa klubeissa, Ecstasy-muotihuume vauhdittaa bileitä, Berliinin muuri säröilee jo; ilmassa on uuden aikakauden tuntua.

"Kureishi's work is evocative of Dickens in its complex interweaving of multiple characters and plot lines, but it burns with the fresh, reckless energy of the young, and is absolutely of the moment in its pop references." --Los Angeles Times This edition of London Kills Me is a superb collection of screenplays and essays from the celebrated screenwriter of My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. it includes the title screenplay, the scripts for his previous screenplays, and essays about the background of each film, the shooting and editing process, and the hilarity of the Academy Awards in Hollywood.

Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban London, enduring his teenage years with good humor, always on the lookout for adventure - and sexual possibilities. Life gets more interesting, however, when his father becomes the Buddha of Suburbia, beguiling a circle of would-be mystics. And when the Buddha falls in love with one of his disciples, the beautiful and brazen Eva, Karim is introduced to a world of renegade theater directors, punk rock stars, fancy parties, and all the sex a young man could desire. A love story for at least two generations, a high-spirited comedy of sexual manners and social turmoil, The Buddha of Suberbia is one of the most enchanting, provocative, and original books to appear in years.

Intimacy on murheellinen mutta koominen eron kuvaus, joka tyrmää rehellisyydellään. Kirjailija ei tyydy pelkästään kuvailemaan nykypäivän parisuhteen tilaa vaan hän tekee sille ruumiinavauksen. Ihmissuhteiden mahdottomuus ja toisaalta välttämättömyys on aiheena myös kokoelman muissa tarinoissa. Etnisen identiteetin ja luokkaerojen käsittelijänä tunnettu Kureishi kohdistaa niissä katseensa sukupuolten ja sukupolvien välisiin suhteisiin ja seksuaalisuuteen. Elämä ei tule valmiiksi, sillä kun saa, mitä haluaa, huomaa haluavansa muuta. Melankolisissa tarinoissa korostuu kirjailijan poikkeuksellinen taito lähestyä tragediaa kepeästi, mutta komediaa vakavasti. Tarinoissa Kureishi on löytänyt uuden lakonisen, tarkkanäköisen tyylin. Lähtö ja neljä muuta tarinaa sisältää v. 1998 julkaistun pienoisromaanin Lähtö (Intimacy) sekä novellit Hämärässä (Nightlight, kokoelmasta Love in a Blue Time, 1997), Jätös (The Tale of the Turd, kokoelmasta Love in a Blue Time, 1997), Hyvästi äiti (Good bye, Mother, kokoelmasta The Body and Other Stories, 2002) sekä Muista tämä hetki, muista meidät (Remember This Moment, Remember Us, kokoelmasta The Body and Other Stories, 2002)