Hanif Kureishi
Birth date: December 05, 1954
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J'ai tenté de me convaincre que quitter quelqu'un n'est pas la pire chose qu'on puisse lui faire subir. C'est parfois douloureux, mais ce n'est pas forcément une tragédie. Si l'on ne quittait jamais rien ni personne, il n'y aurait pas de place pour la nouveauté. Bien sûr, passer à autre chose consti...
Evoked the same annoyance I get when I read The catcher in the rye. Finished it, but it was the equivalent of pulling off the band-aid hair by hair to see what was underneath. I found nothing worthy of a band-aid. I read it as if I was too lazy to turn off the T.V.
Out of the books I ever had to read for a class, this one was among my favourite. I don't really know why. I just enjoyed it, even though it's not the kind of book I usually read.
I'm not a big fan of coming-of-age novels more generally, but I enjoyed this one more than I expected. Very funny and very English, and at the same time often absolutely insane. The prose could be a bit smoother or more polished in places, and the second half kind of sizzles out - Kureishi feels mu...
I picked this one up because it came recommended to me as a novel of place - that place being London in the 1970s. Having recently traveled to London, I felt drawn to dive into a novel in which the story was inextricable from its London setting. This one is that and more. My full review is over here...
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