Hanif Kureishi: Shattered
Shattered
Buch
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 10/2024
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780241667958
- Bestellnummer: 11892628
- Umfang: 328 Seiten
- Gewicht: 400 g
- Maße: 222 x 138 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.10.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed.'Moving, funny, remarkable' Richard Eyre
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'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.'
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.
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.
Biografie
Hanif Kureishi wurde 1954 als Sohn einer Engländerin und eines Pakistani in London geboren. International bekannt wurde er 1985 mit seinem Drehbuch für Stephen Frears' Film "Mein wunderbarer Waschsalon". 1998 schrieb er das Drehbuch zu Patrice Chéreaus Film "Intimacy", der bei den Berliner Festspielen 2001 den Goldenen Bären gewann. Für sein Romandebüt erhielt er 1990 den Whitbread Prize. Hanif Kureishi ist Verfasser zahlreicher Drehbücher, Erzählbände und Romane. Hanif Kureishi
Shattered
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