The Black Album

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• A buddy from suburbia

  'I am an Englishman born and bred, almost,' Karim Amir's opening declaration in The Buddha Of Suburbia, finds an echo in Hanif Kureishi's new novel, The Black Album. When its hero Shahid Hasan is embraced by an Asian Muslim as a 'fellow countryman', ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sun, 26 Sep 2010

• Punk-U-Like

  Pop music in Britain is almost forty years old. By 1957 ‘Rock around the Clock’ had opened a generation gap, London-based record labels like EMI, Decca and Pye had started to refine the art of hit-making, and Manchester had an import record shop brin ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

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  An intertext of Rushdie's densely postmodern and multicultural novel The Satanic Verses. A contemplation on faith, fundamentalism and liberalism crystallised in the identity crises of Shahid and his secret love affair with Deedee. The political pretensions of the novel makes the characterisation loo ... (continue)

  An intertext of Rushdie's densely postmodern and multicultural novel The Satanic Verses. A contemplation on faith, fundamentalism and liberalism crystallised in the identity crises of Shahid and his secret love affair with Deedee. The political pretensions of the novel makes the characterisation look contrived, more nuances can be added to the binary oppositional setting. That said, same as Kureishi's other novels, this book offers very good and truthful dialogues

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  A very good book.
  It's amazingto ralize was written several years before everybody 9/11. The plot it tells is still living matter, and it tells it beautifully. What can I say? I love this mans' work!
  I have to admit I was a bit prejudeced towards books written by Anglo-Indian/Pakistan au ... (continue)

  A very good book.
  It's amazingto ralize was written several years before everybody 9/11. The plot it tells is still living matter, and it tells it beautifully. What can I say? I love this mans' work!
  I have to admit I was a bit prejudeced towards books written by Anglo-Indian/Pakistan authors...
  Years ago I had read The god of small things and A constant music, and I hadn't liked them.
  Now I don't know if it was just me, or simply those were not the right books I needed to read to fall in love with these authors...
  But when I eventually read The suitable boy, everything was different from then on. That book led me to Kureishi who I like more than Vikram Seth.
  Now I'm trying to make Kureishi's books last as much as possible, I want to read them all but I want them to last!

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  Miss Piggott said on Aug 9, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 288 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0571177123
• ISBN-13: 9780571177127
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Pub date: Jan 01, 1996
• Dimensions: 1097 mm x 710 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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