Collected Essays - 1986-2011 (Kureishi Hanif)(Paperback / softback)

Collected Essays - 1986-2011 (Kureishi Hanif)(Paperback / softback)

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

Body and Other Stories (Kureishi Hanif)(Paperback / softback)

The Body is a dazzling collection of fiction from Hanif Kureishi, beginning with a novella that delves into the concept of identity, and its root in our physical being. Youth restored, he embarks on an odyssey of physical hedonism, but must then face the dire consequences when he is loath to

Collected Stories - 1997-2010 (Kureishi Hanif)(Paperback / softback)

Deals with the complexities of relationships as well as the joys of children. This title contains the author's controversial story 'Weddings and Beheadings', as well as his prophetic 'My Son the Fanatic', which exposes the religious tensions within the muslim family

Love + Hate - Stories and Essays (Kureishi Hanif)(Paperback / softback)

Features a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, and an essay about the film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka's relationship with his father. This collection ends with a bravura piece of very personal reportage about the conman who stole authors life

My Beautiful Laundrette (Kureishi Hanif)(Paperback / softback)

His uncle, a keen Thatcherite, offers Omar an entrepreneurial opportunity to revamp a dingy laundrette, and ambitious Omar rolls up his sleeves, enlisting the assistance of his old school-friend Johnny, who has since fallen in with a gang of

Black Album (Kureishi Hanif)(Paperback / softback)

Shahid is a clean-cut student, trying to make an impression on his college lecturer, Deedee Osgood, who gives his spirits a lift when she takes him to a naked rave

What Happened? (Kureishi Hanif)(Paperback)

Comic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is the new and essential collection of Hanif Kureishi's finest literary essays and fiction. No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiable--and much-loved--author. From social media to the ancient classics, from appraisals of David Bowie to

Gabriel's Gift (Kureishi Hanif)(Paperback / softback)

Gabriel is a fifteen-year-old North London schoolboy trying to come to terms with a new life, after the equilibrium of his family home has been shattered by the ousting of his father. But a chance meeting with a seventies rock star crystallises the turbulent emotions inside Gabriel, and helps him

Something to Tell You (Kureishi Hanif)(Paperback / softback)

As he and his best friend Henry attempt to make the sometimes painful, sometimes comic transition to their divorced middle age, balancing the conflicts of desire and dignity, Jamal's teenage traumas make a shocking return into his present

Last Word (Kureishi Hanif)(Paperback / softback)

Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England -- but now, in his early seventies, his reputation is fading, his book sales have dried up and his new wife has expensive

Vůbec nic - Hanif Kureishi

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

The Nothing (Kureishi Hanif)(Paperback)

One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I am sure they are making love in Zenab's bedroom which is next to mine. Waldo, a f ted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment. Frail and

Red Birds (Hanif Mohammed)(Paperback / softback)

Communal Nude: Collected Essays (Gluck Robert)(Paperback)

The collected essays of the cofounder of the New Narrative movement, on theory, identity, poetry, and muses from Kathy Acker to Georges Bataille.I read and wrote to invoke what seemed impossible--relation itself--in order to take part in a world that ceaselessly makes itself up, to 'wake up' to the

What Happened? (Kureishi Hanif)(Pevná vazba)

'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

The Nothing (Kureishi Hanif)(Pevná vazba)

The new book from the author of The Buddha of Suburbia comes a novella of passion, revenge, and deception. Waldo, a feted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment. Frail and frustrated, he is cared for by his lovely younger wife, Zee. But when he suspects that Zee is

Potentialities: Collected Essays (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays written over a period of more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. The volume opens with an introduction in which the editor situates Agamben's work with respect to both the history of philosophy and contemporary

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Abdurraqib Hanif)(Paperback / softback)

Curious Pursuits - Occasional Writing (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Collected essays and journalism from the bestselling author of The Blind Assassin and Oryx and Crake. First

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Wang Esm Weijun)(Paperback)

Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to

Had I Known - Collected Essays (Ehrenreich Barbara (Y))(Paperback / softback)

A selection of the most provocative, incendiary, and brilliant pieces from one of America's most significant left-leaning journalists and

Road - Short Fiction and Essays (Grossman Vasily)(Paperback / softback)

The collected shorter works by the author of Life and Fate and Everything Flows, published in English for the first

Go Ahead in the Rain - Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (Abdurraqib Hanif)(Paperback / softback)

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (Hardwick Elizabeth)(Paperback)

The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form,