Hanif Kureishi Knihy

Kureishiho prvotina, která volně a velmi vtipně reflektuje autorovo dospívání na počátku 70. let v souvislosti s tehdejší revoltou mládeže a celkovou společenskou i politickou situací.

Kniha anglického spisovatele a scénáristy nese autobiografické rysy. „Tahle noc je ze všech nejsmutnější, protože odcházím a už se nikdy nevrátím“, říká v první větě vypravěč Jay. Po šestiletém soužití s redaktorkou Susan nastal čas si udělat jakousi duševní inventuru. Na jedné straně pomyslných vah stojí jeho nemilovaná energická partnerka a dva roztomilí synkové, na druhé pak svoboda zosobněná Jayovou milenkou Ninou. Na jedné straně odpovědnost vůči svým blízkým a minulosti, na druhé odpovědnost vůči sobě sobě a budoucnosti.

Hanif Kureishi patří k nejnadanějším a nejúspěšnějším spisovatelům současné Británie a Láska ve smutné době je jeho vůbec prvním souborem povídek. Hrdinové všech deseti příběhů mají mládí většinou úspěšně za sebou a nejsou si jistí, co by mělo následovat – a tak hledají únik v drogách, sexu či náboženství. Kureishi má jedinečnou schopnost nahlédnout do lidské duše a bez příkras popsat, co v ní objevil. Je výborným pozorovatelem a z jeho postřehů čtenáři místy běhá mráz po zádech. Dokáže však i pobavit a rozesmát, a právě této směsici tragična a komična vděčí jeho texty za svou mimořádnou působivost. Kureishiho povídky jsou kronikou soudobé multikulturní společnosti, svědectvím o smutné době, v níž láska sice občas nabývá prapodivných podob, přesto však stále existuje

Nejnovější román známého britského prozaika. Hlavním hrdinou nového vtipného, křehkého románu Hanifa Kureishiho je patnáctiletý chlapec Gabriel ze severního Londýna, který je nucen vyrovnat se s novým způsobem života poté, co je rovnováha jeho rodinného zázemí do základů otřesena rozchodem rodičů a následným odchodem otce z domu. Ve snaze postarat se sám o sebe a zároveň poskytnout citovou podporu svým zmateným a tápajícím rodičům je Gabriel nucen rychle dospět. Jedinou oporou mu je duchovní spojení s jeho zesnulým dvojčetem Archiem. Náhodné setkání s imaginární rockovou hvězdou 70. let, Lesterem Jonesem, vykrystalizuje do bouřlivé citové změny v Gabrielově nitru a pomůže mu objevit jeho „dar“ a naučit se ho používat.

Od autora knižní předlohy filmu Intimita Waldo, slavný filmový režisér, je kvůli stáří a nemoci uvězněn ve svém londýnském bytě. Je slabý a frustrovaný, opečovávaný svou půvabnou, o hodně mladší manželkou Zee. Ale v okamžiku, kdy pojme podezření, že Zee si začíná milostný románek s Eddiem, který je jeho „víc než známý a méně než přítel už přes třicet let", je Waldo přinucen jednat: rozhodne se pár odhalit. Nejprve se ale chce ujistit, že podezření není jen výplodem jeho fantazie, a pokud ne, přijde na řadu pomsta…

With a foreword by Daniel BarenboimMusic at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward Said's essays and articles on music.

Hanif Kureishi was voted the Most Promising Playwright of the Year in 1981 by the London Theatre Critics for his plays "Borderline" and "Outskirts". This selection of plays shows his development as a writer from his own perspective and from the perspective of the British theatre of the 1970s.

'Kureishi's screenplay is one of his most focused and engaging since My Beautiful Laundrette.' Allan Hunter, Screen International At sixty-five years of age, May fears that life has passed her by - that she has become just another invisible old lady whose days are more or less numbered. When she and her husband travel down from the north to visit their grown-up children in west London, she finds them characteristically inattentive. But then her husband's unexpected death pulls the ground from under her, and she subsequently embarks on a passionate affair with Darren, a man half her age, who is renovating her son's house and sleeping with her daughter, Paula. In the midst of this tumultuous situation, May begins to understand that it can take a lifetime to feel truly alive.

The book is characterized by its blend of humor and emotional depth, showcasing remarkable storytelling that resonates with readers. It captures poignant moments while also delivering laughter, making it a compelling read that balances light-heartedness with significant themes. The narrative is crafted to evoke a range of emotions, leaving a lasting impression on its audience.

This acclaimed collection charts the course of Pop from its underground origins through its low and high art phases to its current omnipresence; it takes in fiction, reportage, fashion, art and fantasy as filtered through pop music and includes work by Michael Bracewell, Angela Carter, Nick Cohn, Bob Dylan, Simon Garfield, Nelson George, Germaine Greer, Peter Guralnick, John Lennon, Norman Mailer, Greil Marcus, Iggy Pop, Neil Tennant, Lou Reed, Simon Reynolds, Hunter S. Thompson, Nick Tosches, Andy Warhol, Tom Wolfe and Malcolm X, amongst others. Covering more than 50 years of writing from 1942 on, The Faber Book of Pop is the most stimulating collection of writing on popular music ever published.

The essential collection from one of Britain's most celebrated and controversial writers.

A new paperback edition of Hanif Kureishi's wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays.

Intimacy - now a film - analyzes the agonies and joys of being connected to another person. Jay, who is leaving his partner and their two sons, reflects on the vicissitudes of his relationship with Susan. This volume includes two short stories from Love in a Blue Time and Midnight All Day.

The outbreak of the Iraq war and its aftermath, plus the bombings in London, have stimulated Hanif Kureishi to write about the great divide between the East and the West - the gulf between fundamentalist Islam and Western values. This book is a collection of his controversial writings.

What if you were middle-aged and were offered the chance to trade in your sagging flesh for a much younger and more pleasing model? This is the situation in which the main character of The Body finds himself. Taking the plunge, he embarks on an odyssey of hedonism, but soon finds himself regretting what he has left behind as the responsibilities he thought he had sloughed off now begin to come home to him. Sinister forces are pursuing him, wanting possession of his 'body', and he finds himself in a no-man's-land, uncertain which way to turn. Praise for Hanif Kureishi's previous collection, Midnight All Day:

A remarkable insight into the birth of a writer, and the moving discovery of family secrets. When Hanif Kureishi discovers an abandoned manuscript of his father's his understanding of the family history is transformed. So begins a journey which takes Kureishi through his father's privileged childhood by the sea in Bombay, to the trauma of partition and to his adult life hidden away in the suburbs of Bromley - his days spent as a minor functionary in the Pakistan embassy in London, his nights writing prose, hopeful of one day receiving literary recognition. This is a book about his father's failed career as a writer and the beginnings of Kureishi's successful career as one - as his father looks on with pride and perhaps envy.

Seit Stephen Frears 1985 die Geschichte „über einen schwulen Pakistani, der einen Waschsalon betreibt“, verfilmte, gilt Kureishi als einer der wichtigsten multikulturellen Autoren Großbritanniens. Die Themen Rassenkonflikte, Homosexualität, Klassenschranken, soziale Gegensätze, Jugendarbeitslosigkeit und das vom Thatcherismus gepredigte Streben nach wirtschaft- lichem Erfolg werden innerhalb einer bewegenden Liebesgeschichte unaufdringlich, charmant und fern jeder Schwarzweißmalerei dargestellt. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch

Shahid, a young man from the provinces, comes to London after the death of his father. He finds himself embroiled in a battle between liberalism and fundamentalism in a London so noisily exuberant there is scarcely room for his arguments.

Tells the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of author's acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka's relationship with his father, readers will find Kureishi also exploring the topics that he continues to make new, and make his own.

Performing a deft metaphorical evisceration of Sigmund Freud’s classic 1919 essay that delved deeply into the tradition of horror writing, this freshly contemporary collection of literary interpretations reintroduces to the world Freud’s compelling theory of das unheimliche —or, the uncanny. Specifically designed to challenge the creative boundaries of some of the most famed and respected horror writers working today—such as A. S. Byatt, Christopher Priest, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Matthew Holness, and the indomitable Ramsey Campbell—this anatomically precise experiment encapsulates what the uncanny represents in the 21st century. Masterfully narrated with the benefit of unique perspectives on what exactly it is that goes bump in the night, this chilling modern collective is not only an essential read for fans of horror but also an insightful and intriguing introduction to the greats of the genre at their gruesome best.

Hanif Kureishi, selber in einem pakistanisch-englischen Elternhaus geboren, schildert in 'My Son the Fanatic' den bis zum totalen Zerwürfnis führenden Konflikt zwischen dem aus Pakistan stammenden Vater Parvez und seinem Sohn Farid. Der Sohn, der als Sittenwächter auftritt, wirft dem liberal gesinnten Vater Unmoral und Prinzipienlosigkeit vor. Farids Rebellion gegen die westliche Wertewelt lässt ihn zum Fundamentalisten werden. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William BoydComic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction.

A collection of stories that depicts a lost generation of men: those shaped by the sixties, disoriented by the eighties and bereft of a personal and political map in the nineties.

Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to their coming of age in the 1970s, he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved in this vibrant and expansive novel.

Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England - but now, in his early 70s, his reputation is fading, sales have dried up, and his new wife has expensive taste.Harry, a young writer, is commissioned to write a biography to revitalise both Mamoon's career and his bank balance. Harry greatly admires Mamoon's work and wants to uncover the truth of the artist's life. Harry's publisher seeks a more naked truth, a salacious tale of sex and scandal that will generate headlines. Meanwhile Mamoon himself is mining a different vein of truth altogether.Harry and Mamoon find themselves in a battle of wills, but which of them will have the last word?The ensuing struggle for dominance raises issues of love and desire, loyalty and betrayal, and the frailties of age versus the recklessness of youth.Hanif Kureishi has created a tale brimming with youthful exuberance, as hilarious as it is touching, where words have the power to forge a world.

Povídka klasika ruské literatury, napsaná roku 1891, je příběhem dvou mužů, jejichž rozdílné názory a postoje je přivedou až k souboji.

Ed. and annoted by Michael Mitchell

In ›Blau ist die Liebe‹ thematisiert Hanif Kureishi die menschlichen Sehnsüchte und Abgründe, indem er die Suche nach Erfüllung durch Sex und exzessives Leben schildert. Die Protagonisten erreichen jedoch nie die ersehnte Nähe. Kureishi erzählt leidenschaftlich und fesselnd von der paradoxen Natur der Seele.

"Mi chiamo Karim Amir e sono un vero inglese, più o meno." Comincia così "Il Budda delle periferie", romanzo con il quale Hanif Kureishi esordiva nella narrativa nel 1990, dopo aver scritto le sceneggiature di "My beautiful Laundrette" e "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" e dopo aver scritto e diretto "London Kills Me". Il libro è un racconto di formazione che narra le peripezie sentimentali e le avventure di vita di Karim, adolescente metà inglese e metà indiano nella periferia londinese degli anni Settanta.