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Something to Tell You: A Novel
Hanif Kureishi
Scribner
August 2008
On Sale: August 19, 2008
384 pages
ISBN: 1416572104
EAN: 9781416572107
Hardcover
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THE STUNNINGLY ORIGINAL, ICONOCLASTIC, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
OF THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA RETURNS WITH HIS FINEST, MOST
EXUBERANT NOVEL.
In the early 1980s Hanif Kureishi emerged as one of the
most compelling new voices in film and fiction. His movies
My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and
his novel The Buddha of Suburbia captivated audiences and
inspired other artists. In Something to Tell You, he
travels back to those days of hedonism, activism and
glorious creativity. And he explores the lives of that
generation now, in a very different London. Jamal is middle-aged, though reluctant to admit it. He has
an ex-wife, a son he adores, a thriving career as a
psychoanalyst and vast reserves of unsatisfied
desire. "Secrets are my currency," he says. "I deal in them
for a living." And he has some of his own. He is haunted by
Ajita, his first love, whom he hasn't seen in decades, and
by an act of violence he has never confessed. With great empathy and agility, Kureishi has created an
array of unforgettable characters -- a hilarious and
eccentric theater director, a covey of charming and defiant
outcasts and an ebullient sister who thrives on the fringe.
All wrestle with their own limits as human beings; all are
plagued by the past until they find it within themselves to
forgive. Comic, wise and unfailingly tender, Something to Tell You
is Kureishi's best work to date, brilliant and
exhilarating.
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