Hanif Kureishi

Gebundenes Buch

Shattered

A Memoir

Beschreibung

"In late 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, he realized he could no longer walk. He could do nothing without the help of others and required constant care in a hospital. So began a yearlong odyssey 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 hold a pen, he began to dictate to family members the words that formed in his head--thoughts on his medical condition, but also parenthood, immigration, sex, psychoanalysis, and, of course, writing. The result was [a] ... series of dispatches from his hospital bed: a diary of a life in pieces, recorded with rare honesty, humor, and verve"--

Autor

Hanif Kureishi is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is the author of nine novels, including The Buddha of Suburbia (winner of the Whitbread Award 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 and the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He lives in London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 149mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780063360501
• ISBN-10: 0063360500
• Artikelnr.: 69233409

Rezensionen

Extraordinary, unique and unputdownable . . . an exceptional volume as original as Jean-Dominique Bauby's stroke classic The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [and] as profound and affected as Salman Rushdie's Knife . . . This fall provoked a rare, and inspiring, defiance . . . Shattered, with its unique authorship, has become a life-saver. For the reader, this compounds the intensity of its witness Robert McCrum Independent

Perlentaucher-Notiz zur NZZ-Rezension

Rezensentin Marion Löhndorf empfiehlt Hanif Kureishis Bericht über seine Querschnittslähmung als Liebeserklärung an das Leben. Der Autor legt laut Rezensentin keinen Elendsbericht vor, sondern erzählt mit grimmigem Humor vom Schock des Ereignisses, das den Autor plötzlich ereilt, aus dem Leben reißt und in die Parallelwelt der Krankenhäuser und Reha-Spitale schleudert. Kureishi erzählt von der Illusion des Normalen und wie sein Körper zu etwas Öffentlichem wird, von alten und neuen Freunden, von der Einsamkeit, vom Schreiben und auch von seinem früheren Leben, seiner Kindheit und Jugend. Vor allem Kureishis Direktheit scheint Löhndorf lesenswert.

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