Ours are the Streets - Couverture souple

Sahota, Sunjeev

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330515810 ISBN 13 : 9780330515818

Editeur : Picador, 2011

Synopsis

When Imtiaz Raina leaves England for the first time, to bury his father on his family's land near Lahore, he exchanges his uncertain life in Sheffield for a road that leads to the mountains of Kashmir and Afghanistan. Once back in Yorkshire, he writes through the night to his young wife Becka and baby daughter Noor, and tries to explain, in a story full of affection and yearning, what has happened to him -- and why he has a devastating new sense of home. From the reviews: 'Genuine, poignant ...A moral work of real intelligence and power' John Burnside, The Times 'What Sahota creates is not an exploration of the psyche of a suicide bomber, but an exploration of a man' Yorkshire Post 'Startling. This book successfully humanizes one of the great demons of contemporary society, and for that, Sunjeev Sahota should be given a high five off the Queen or something' Dazed and Confused, 'Book of the Month' 'Imtiaz's journey to Pakistan, and his sense of belonging, gives the novel much of its eloquence.Great literary promise' Independent 'Excruciatingly well-written' Guardian 'The book's great force lies in its voice: that of a young man straining to express instincts, fears and emotional conflicts, lending his writing a distinctive vibrancy' Observer 'An acute debut. What is most chilling, and most successful, is that it all seems so familiar, so close and so easy' Sunday Times

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

I'm having to stop myself from reading back through what I've written. Keep myself going forward. Need to get to the end. Imtiaz Raina, born in Sheffield, young father, young husband, son of loving parents, has decided to die. He has convinced himself that he believes in his cause. And before he leaves home for a final time, he wants to be sure his family understand why. So he decides to write for them, to leave his journey behind. Raw, funny, tender, furious, vulnerable, selfish, desperate, proud: this is his story. This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60% of the author's work and as low as 30% with characters and plotlines removed.

Revue de presse :

A compelling tale of a young man's shift from ordinary British tennager to Muslim Radical. --The Bookseller

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0330515810
• ISBN 13: 9780330515818
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320