The Black Album: Adapted for the Stage
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The Black Album: Adapted for the Stage
By (Author) Hanif Kureishi
By (author) Hanif Kureishi
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
23rd October 2009
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
822.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
112
Width 126mm, Height 197mm, Spine 9mm
128g
Description
An Asian kid from Kent goes to college in London and teams up with a sympathetic group of anti-racists. But it' s 1989, the year of the fatwa, and as Shahid begins a hedonistic affair with his lecturer, his radical Muslim friends want to steer him away from the decadence of the West.
Author Bio
Hanif Kureishi is the author of novels (including The Buddha of Suburbia, The Black Album, Intimacy and Something to Tell You), story collections (Love in a Blue Time, Midnight All Day, The Body), plays (including Outskirts, Borderline and Sleep With Me), and screenplays (including My Beautiful Laundrette, My Son the Fanatic and Venus). Among his other publications are the collection of essays Dreaming and Scheming, The Word and the Bomb and the memoir My Ear at his Heart.
