Stuck in a lackluster community college after a less-than-ideal high school career, music-loving Shadid Hasan strives to impress two incompatible camps in his conservative Muslim neighbors and radical lecturer Deedee Osgood

When the brain of older man Adam is surgically placed within the body of a younger man, he takes an extended vacation from the real world and embarks on an odyssey of hedonism, an adventure that is compromised by his increasing feelings of guilt and sinister forces that urge him to return the body. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: El buda de esta novela es un respetable pakistani de clase y edad medias, casado con una inglesa, que un buen dia decide brindar a las amas de casa y a sus maridos de los suburbios la racion de trascendencia y extasis mistico a que todos creian tener derecho en los anos setenta...read more

Karim's father becomes London's buddha of suburbia and draws his young son into an overwhelming world of punk rockers, eccentric theater people, extravagant parties, and, of course, lavish sex

The son of a failed rock musician dreams of becoming an artist and escaping his stifling life, but his life will change radically when one of his dad's old bandmates shows up with advice on how to make up with his family.

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A prize-winning novelist offers a searing and unflinchingly honest potrayal of a failing marriage as Jay, a successful Londoner, decides to leave his wife, abandoning the children he loves, because of the deterioration of their marriage's intimacy. 25,000 first printing.

The novel 'Intimacy,' about one man's decision to leave his lover and their two children, is accompanied by a collection of original stories. (view table of contents)

A combination dictionary and style guide offers over 58,000 dictionary entries accompanied by guidance on grammar, usage, and punctuation (view table of contents)

A collection of short stories includes the tale of a Pakistani girl's visit to London, which causes a revolution in her suburban home, and the dilemmas of once carefree men and women as they confront the complications of adult life in middle-class London. (view table of contents)

A collection of short stories includes the tale of a Pakistani girl's visit to London, which causes a revolution in her suburban home, and the dilemmas of once carefree men and women as they confront the complications of adult life in middle-class London (view table of contents)

Product Description: Whitbread Prize winner Kureshi is one of a new generation of British writers whose experience is refracted through his Pakistani heritage. These collected screenplays and essays also include "My Son the Fanatic". (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author, half British, half Pakistani, describes his childhood and shares his screenplay for the movie, My Beautiful Laundrette, about a young Pakistani trying to start a business in London

Described in a recent New York Times Magazine profile as a "postcolonial Philip Roth," Hanif Kureishi first captured the attention of audiences and critics in the 1980s with the award-winning novel The Buddha of Suburbia and the films My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. In three decades of acclaimed work, Kureishi has written fiction and films exploring a series of interconnected themes about identity and desire—from Islamic radicalism to kinky sex, and from psychoanalysis to the relationships of fathers and sons. After discovering an abandoned manuscript of his father’s, hidden for years, Kureishi was compelled to turn his "unflinching perspective" (Time Out) onto his own history. Like Roth, Martin Amis and Geoffrey Wolfe, who also have written books about their fathers, Kureishi wanted to understand and perhaps to reconcile. My Ear at His Heart offers remarkable insight into the birth of a writer, chronicling how Kureishi’s own literary calling emerged from the ashes of his father’s aspirations. And so begins a journey that takes Kureishi through his father’s privileged childhood by the sea in Bombay, through the turbulent birth of Pakistan and to his modest adult life in England—his days spent as a civil servant, his nights writing prose, hopeful of one day receiving literary recognition. "A beguiling and complex tale of fact, fiction and family tensions" (The Guardian), My Ear at His Heart was published to great acclaim in the United Kingdom in 2004 and went on to win the prestigious Prix France Culture Etranger. Now, this profound work from one of the most compelling artists of our time is at last available in a Scribner edition.

Product Description: Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani father when his son rejects the material possessions and values he has slaved all his life for and embraces a fundamentalist sect of Islam.

Provides the screenplay to a British motion picture that tells the story of a young interracial couple who face complications when Sammy's father, a Third World government official, flees to England with a suitcase full of money