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Hanif Kureishi: Postcolonial Storyteller

Hanif Kureishi: Postcolonial Storyteller

Kenneth C. Kaleta

This book is the first critical biography of Hanif Kureishi. Kenneth Kaleta interviewed Kureishi over several years and enjoyed unlimited access to all of his working papers, journals, and personal files.
Love in a Blue Time

Love in a Blue Time

Hanif Kureishi

'In this haunting, troubling collection of short stories, Hanif Kureishi has finally embraced the decadence that has lain in wait for him . . . A tense, desolate and consuming collection.
Gabriel's Gift

Gabriel's Gift

Hanif Kureishi

The protagonist of Hanif Kureishi's delightful novel is Gabriel, a fifteen-year-old North London schoolboy trying to come to terms with a new life, after the equilibrium of his family home has been shattered by the ousting of his father.
Venus

Venus

Hanif Kureishi

Kureishi has crafted a disturbing, wry and profoundly moving swansong for his characters. Also included in this volume is an Introduction by Kureishi in which he describes the inspiration he drew from the Japanese master Tanizaki.
The Body: A Novel

The Body: A Novel

Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi -- acclaimed author of The Buddha of Suburbia and Intimacy -- explores the possibilities in this provocative story of an older man whose brain is surgically placed in a younger man's body by a network of underground doctors.
The Black Album

The Black Album

Hanif Kureishi

The Black Album is the second novel by Hanif Kureishi, one of the most praised and influential writers of our times.
The Nothing

The Nothing

Hanif Kureishi

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.
Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi

Bart Moore-Gilbert

The first book-length study of one of Britain's most successful young writers.
Collected Stories

Collected Stories

John Cheever

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHI This outstanding collection by Pulitzer prize-winning novelist John Cheever show the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the last century.
Etudes britanniques contemporaines

Etudes britanniques contemporaines

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... Madelena Gonzalez 1 45 "The Voices Within": éthique et autorité dans My Ear at His Heart de Hanif Kureishi Frédéric Regard 161 Articles hors thème Manipulating Memory in Elizabeth Bowen's The House in Paris Shannon Wells- Lassagne ...
British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers

British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers

C. Chambers

Through interviews with leading writers (including Ahdaf Soueif and Hanif Kureishi), this book analyzes the writing and opinions of novelists of Muslim heritage based in the UK. Discussion centres on writers' work, literary techniques, and ...
Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970

Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970

Peter Childs

Peter Childs offers accessible analyses of the work of twelve prominent contemporary British writers, including Hanif Kureishi, Pat Barker, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson.
Crossed Correspondences: Writers as Readers and Critics of ...

Crossed Correspondences: Writers as Readers and Critics of ...

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Writers as Readers and Critics of their Peers Vanessa Guignery. romanciers anglais, parmi lesquels Alan Sillitoe, Peter Ackroyd, David Lodge, Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Graham Swift, Hanif Kureishi et Will Self, et a publié de nombreux  ...
Home truths: fictions of the South Asian diaspora in Britain

Home truths: fictions of the South Asian diaspora in Britain

Susheila Nasta

Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain seeks to place individual works of now world famous writers such as V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon or Hanif Kureishi within a diverse tradition of immigrant writing that ...
Onze lieve vrouw van Alice Bhatti

Onze lieve vrouw van Alice Bhatti

Mohammed Hanif

Ze zal al haar krachten moeten aanwenden om zich uit deze situatie te redden -maar wonderen kennen ook hun grenzen... Mohammed Hanif is geboren in Pakistan,waar hij een tijd werkte voor de luchtmacht.
The Baloch who is Not Missing and Others who are

The Baloch who is Not Missing and Others who are

Mohammed Hanif

An account of enforced disappearances in Baluchistan. The stories are based on interviews conducted with families of the missing.
Design Engineering Refocused

Design Engineering Refocused

Hanif Kara

The contents of the book will highlight the differences between the design and engineering disciplines – strengths and flaws.
Design Engineering: AKT.

Design Engineering: AKT.

Hanif Kara

Organized according to a series of synthetic themes - complexity, transscalarity, modelling, process - that cut across these diverse projects and methods, the first monograph on AKT's work is a manual for new relations between radical ...
A Case of Exploding Mangoes

A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Mohammed Hanif

You are going to receive it from the President of Pakistan. You have two choices: graduate with honour in four weeks or go out front-rolling to the sound of drums. Tomorrow. Clap. Clap. Tony Singh style.' He brings his hands together twice, like  ...
Alice Bhattis Himmelfahrt: Roman

Alice Bhattis Himmelfahrt: Roman

Mohammed Hanif

Mohammed Hanifs zutiefst menschlicher Zugang und der eindringliche und temporeiche Erzählstil bestätigen seinen Ruf als herausragende literarische Stimme Pakistans.
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

Mohammed Hanif

Can Alice and Teddy live happily ever after? Will the hospital accept her unorthodox ways? It all seems unlikely, but then Alice Bhatti is no ordinary nurse and this is downtown Karachi where the unusual is ordinary .
State of Human Rights in Pakistan

State of Human Rights in Pakistan

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Multan (Jahanian) Shaukat,Aziz ASI Farzand Hanif Ali Jahanian police raided a house to arrest four POs. Exchange of firing ended in the death of three POs. The fourth one escaped. 37. Karachi (City) Shamsuddin SI Abdul Qadir SI Abdul ...
Film Review: Special

Film Review: Special

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... Bronagh Gallagher, Kenneth Cranham DIR Dudi Appleton SCRIPT Jim Keeble CERT 15 DIST Ian Rattray Films RT lhr ... James Mottram TieMitiei STARS Anne Reid, Peter Vaughan, Anna Wilson-Jones DIR Roger Michell SCRIPT Hanif ...

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