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My Ear at His Heart [Paperback]

Hanif Kureishi (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (1 Sep 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571224040
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571224043
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.6 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 123,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"'Hanif Kureishi's literary memoir explores his relationship with his father, a failed writer. Kurieshi is, of course, hugely successful...' Esquire This is an ambitious book. Kureshi - free-associating with what feels like unmitigated honesty - successfully conveys the impression that in this book he has actually given us himself.' Sunday Times 'Deeply involving, highly intelligent and, in what it doesn't say rather than what it does, profoundly sad.' Evening Standard 'I don't think he has done anything as good, in any medium, as this moving and fiercely honest book.' Guardian"

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'Hanif Kureishi's literary memoir explores his relationship with his father, a failed writer. Kurieshi is, of course, hugely successful...' Esquire

'This is an ambitious book. Kureshi - free-associating with what feels like unmitigated honesty - successfully conveys the impression that in this book he has actually given us himself.' Sunday Times

'Deeply involving, highly intelligent and, in what it doesn't say rather than what it does, profoundly sad.' Evening Standard

'I don't think he has done anything as good, in any medium, as this moving and fiercely honest book.' Guardian

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Excellent 25 Nov 2004
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Format:Hardcover
I really enjoyed this book. The story of Mr. Kureishi's father life interchanging with his own life story - tells us a lot about how his father's childhood affected not only his father's life but also his own.

Excellent also for those looking for an insight into cross cultural issues and about real life. An easy read.

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A challenging and often very moving mix of (auto)biography, philosophy and cultural history, which uses the story of Kureishi's own (very interesting) family to reflect a changing world and by implication the ongoing search for identity.

As someone who is not Kureishi's greatest fan ("The Buddha of Suburbia" in particular passed me by), I was surprised at how effective the honest, direct and straightforward style he adopts here was in making this a very absorbing read.

Kureishi is convincing both in his portrayal of the domestic front, with the debilitating effects of sibling rivalry, and on the wider sociopolitical stage, as he contrasts the India/Pakistan his parents knew, with its rigid religious and family structures, ambitions and expectations, with his own experiences growing up in an increasingly liberal Britain and shows how that contrast has helped to shape his own outlook.

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Expected more from it 4 July 2006
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I was really looking forward to this book, as I like Mr. Kureishi's writing style. It started off promising, as an engrossing biography-type read, but ended up sounding like a term paper with the subject being 'How I became a writer'. If I was the professor grading it, I would have it given a B-. Kureishi began by examining his father's past, and then talked some about his father's relatives, and then when he felt that he ran out of that kind of material he talked about himself and his own friends. Not a good idea. I wanted to read more of the elder Kureishi's manuscripts, and learn more about him as a writer, albeit an unpublished one. It seemed like the son was critical of the father as a writer and I didn't like that, even if the son is the better, and more successful, writer. I can imagine that it would be difficult to write a book about one's parents, because all of one's judgments and pre-set opinions are already hard-wired in the brain. But if you've set your mind to do it you might as well do it right. And this book, while it isn't "wrong", didn't really go where I was hoping it would.
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