The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach. The story of nine-year-old Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village of Tollington. číst celé
Meera Syal Knihy
Meera Syal je britská autorka, která zkoumá kulturní střet mezi indickou diasporou a britskou společností. Její díla často s humorem a citem zachycují zkušenosti druhé generace imigrantů, jejich hledání identity a snahu vyrovnat se s tradicí a modernitou. Syal přistupuje k psaní s pronikavým postřehem a vcítěním, čímž vytváří postavy, které jsou lidské, vtipné a nezapomenutelné.
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
- 331 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
This novel about friendship, marriage and betrayal, focuses on the difficult choices that contemporary women have to make, whether or not they happen to have been raised in the Asian community.
Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women, span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and the best part of the 20th century, telling various stories collectively. Stand ups, classic actresses, film and television personalities, experimental and alternative practitioners discuss why they want to perform, what motivates them, and how their personal history has contributed to their desires to perform. Oddey's critical and analytical introductory essay examines themes of performers' identities, displacement, acting as playing, differences between theatre, film and television performance, attitudes towards and relationships with audiences, and working with women directors. In several interviews the additional challenge of motherhood emerges as an important subtext in the performing lives of these women.
