Hanif Kureishi, Author . Scribner $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1711-8
In 1999, Kureishi set teacups rattling in England with Intimacy, a sexually explicit novella about an extramarital affair, with possible real-life parallels. Here he concocts an appealing, deceptively breezy coming-of-age story recalling his...
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Hanif Kureishi, Author . Scribner $18 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4904-1
At once intriguing and preposterous, Kureishi's slender new novel starts off promisingly. Adam, the narrator, a famous writer in his 60s, is approached at a party by an attractive and mysterious young man named Ralph. Ralph claims to be an old...
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Hanif Kureishi, Author . Scribner $26 (375p) ISBN 978-1-4165-7210-7
Prolific screenwriter, playwright and novelist Kureishi has a gift for smart, sparkling prose and expertly crafted characters, and it is on full display in his latest, the funny and heartbreaking story of Jamal Khan, a successful middle-aged London...
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Hanif Kureishi, Author Penguin Books $15 (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-013168-0
Karim Amir, bored with his suburban lifestyle in England, is propelled into the fast lane and introduced to disparate cultures, classes and genders thanks to a disorienting chain of events sparked by his father, a self-proclaimed guru. PW called...
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Hanif Kureishi, Author Scribner Book Company $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-82540-3
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Kureishi's second novel is a multicultural coming-of-age tale. (Oct.)
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Hanif Kureishi, Author Scribner Book Company $21.5 (287p) ISBN 978-0-684-81342-4
Again cleverly mining the chaos and contradictions of multicultural, postmodern England, Kureishi (The Buddha of Suburbia) follows the turbulent social and spiritual education of an impressionable young Pakistani at an inferior London college, where
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Hanif Kureishi, Author Scribner Book Company $16 (128p) ISBN 978-0-684-85275-1
""I have been trying to convince myself that leaving someone isn't the worst thing you can do to them,"" says Jay, the middle-aged narrator of this relentlessly honest account of one man's preparations to abandon his two young sons and their mother.
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Hanif Kureishi, Author Viking Books $18.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-83342-9
Midway through the first page of this delectable first novel by screenwriter Kureishi ( My Beautiful Laundrette ; Sammy and Rosie Get Laid ), the 17-year-old narrator--``My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost''--observes
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Hanif Kureishi, Author Scribner Book Company $21.5 (224p) ISBN 978-0-684-83794-9
The characters in this collection of 10 stories--chiefly Pakistanis transplanted to England--are for the most part bitter, vengeful, petty, unfulfilled and vicious. They're unattractive to their fellow characters and to us. But screenwriter (My...
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Hanif Kureishi. Scribner, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4767-7921-8
The new novel from Kureishi (The Buddha of Suburbia) follows Harry Johnson, an aimless young—but not that young—writer, dispatched by his sleazy editor to the estate of Mamoon Azam, a famously difficult Indian-born author (transparently modeled on V.
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Hanif Kureishi. Faber & Faber, $22 (176p) ISBN 978-0-571-33201-4
The narrator of Whitbread Prize–winner Kureishi’s caustic latest (after The Last Word) is a dirty old man named Waldo. He’s an angry, impotent, but highly successful filmmaker who suspects his younger wife, Zee, is having an affair with their friend
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