The Last Word - Kureishi, Hanif
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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…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
Hanif Kureishi, geb. 1954 als Sohn einer Engländerin und eines Pakistani in London, wurde mit seinem Drehbuch für Stephen Frears' Film 'Mein wunderbarer Waschsalon' 1985 international bekannt . 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.
Rezensionen
Brilliantly funny and entertaining. David Sexton, Evening Standard