The Last Word by Hanif Kureishi

 

The Last Word

the last word

AUD $29.99  inc. GST

The new novel from Hanif Kureishi: an outrageous, clever and very funny story of sex, lies, art and what defines a life.

Description

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.

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Hanif Kureishi grew up in Kent and studied philosophy at King’s College London. His novels include  The Buddha of Suburbia, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel,  The Black Album, Intimacy  and Something to Tell You. His screenplays include  My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay,  Sammy and Rosie Get Laid  and  The Mother. He has also published several collections of short stories. He has been awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and been translated into thirty six languages.

ISBN: 9780571277537
Australian Pub.: February 2014
Publisher: Faber
Imprint: Faber Fiction
Subject: Literary fiction

 

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