Hanif Kureishi Shattered recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de memoir van de Engelse schrijver. Op 1 november 2024 verschijnt bij Hamish Hamilton het nieuwe boek van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver Hanif Kureishi. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de memoir is nog niet verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Hanif Kureishi Shattered recensie, review en informatie

• “Hanif Kureishi has long been one of the most exciting , irreverent, influential voices of his generation. In this beautiful, moving memoir he deals with personal calamity with wit, unflinching honesty and literary grace. It’s an extraordinary achievement.” (Salman Rushdie)
• “Very moving and often funny . . . There are two surprising things about [Shattered]: the first is that there’s no self-pity or self-regard, even if there’s a Lear-like fury with the injustice of fate; the second is that it’s a love story – love of his partner, his ex-wife, his three sons, his late father and his many friends. “I will make something of this,” he says of his experiences. And, with the help of those who love him, he’s achieved something altogether remarkable.” (Richard Eyre)

Shattered

• Auteur: Hanif Kureishi (Engeland)
• Soort boek: memoir
• Taal: Engels
• Uitgever: Hamish Hamilton
• Verschijnt: 1 november 2024
• Omvang: 336 pagina’s
• Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
• Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de memoir van Hanif Kureishi

On Boxing Day 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, in a pool of blood, he was horrified to realise he had lost the use of his limbs. He could no longer walk, write or wash himself. He could do nothing without the help of others, and required constant care in a hospital. So began an odyssey of a year through the medical systems of Rome and Italy, with the hope of somehow being able to return home, to his house in London.

While confined to a series of hospital wards, he felt compelled to write, but being unable to type or to hold a pen, he began to dictate to family members the words which formed in his head. The result was an extraordinary series of dispatches from his hospital bed – a diary of a life in pieces, recorded with rare honesty, clarity and courage.

As Hanif wrote, early on: ‘A few days ago, a bomb went off in my life, but this bomb has also shattered the lives of those around me. My partner, my children, my friends.’

This book takes these hospital dispatches – edited, expanded and meticulously interwoven with new writing – and charts both a shattering and a reassembling: a new life born of pain and loss, but animated by new feelings – of gratitude, humility and love.

Hanif Kureishi (5 December 1954, Bromley, London) ,is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is the author of nine novels, including The Buddha of Suburbia (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel), The Black Album, Intimacy, and The Nothing. His screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette was nominated for an Oscar, and he is the recipient of the PEN/Pinter Prize, the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He lives in London.

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