Book description
Over the course of the last 12 years, Hanif Kureishi has written
short fiction. The stories are, by turns, provocative, erotic, tender,
funny and charming as they deal with the complexities of relationships
as well as the joys of children. This collection contains his
controversial story Weddings and Beheadings, a well as his prophetic
My Son the Fanatic, which exposes the religious tensions within the
muslim family unit. As with his novels and screenplays, Kureishi has
his finger on the pulse of the political tensions in society and how
they affect people's everyday lives.
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 The Black Album, 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.
