What Happened?

by Hanif Kureishi

Overview

Comic, dark and insightful, the essays and short fiction of What Happened? expertly chronicle our modern age.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571352067
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Publication date:	07/27/2021
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hanif Kureishi grew up in Kent and studied philosophy at King’s College London. His novels include The Buddha of Suburbia, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, The Black Album, Intimacy, The Last Word and The Nothing.



His screenplays include My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and Le Week-End. He has also published several collections of short stories.



Kureishi has been awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the PEN/Pinter Prize, and is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. His work has been translated into thirty-six languages. He is professor of Creative Writing at Kingston University.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Birdy Num-Num 9

If Their Lips Weren't Sealed by Fear 19

Love Is Always an Innovation 25

Excessive, Explosive Enjoyment 29

London: Open City 39

Where Is Everybody? 43

Two Keiths and the Wrong Piano 49

It Feels Like a Crime: The Devil Inside 61

Read My Mind 67

The Muse Gave Me a Kiss 73

She Said He Said 77

We Are the Pollutants 85

It Was So Much Fun 91

Starman Jones 97

His Father's Watch 107

The Widow 117

Travelling to Find Out 125

Why Should We Do What God Says? 133

Fanatics, Fundamentalists and Fascists 145

Nowhere 151

My Beautiful Box Set Binge 173

An ice Cream with Isabella 179

The Billionaire Comes to Supper 183

Acknowledgements 197

Editorial Reviews

"Kureishi's essays are among his best work. He writes with a clarity and depth that are the mark of a great storyteller." — Observer



"Kureishi's reportage is penetrating, sardonic and humane." — Daily Telegraph

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