The Black Album

The Black Album PDF Author: Hanif Kureishi
Publisher: Faber & Faber Limited
ISBN: 9780571203925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
Shahid, a clean-cut young man from the provinces, comes to London after the death of his father. In the capital he falls in love with Deedee Osgood, a college lecturer, and finds himself passionately embroiled in a spiritual battle between liberalism and fundamentalism. The Black Album is set in the London of 1989, the year after the second summer of love and the year of the infamous fatwah was imposed on Salman Rushdie. It is a thriller for the rave generation by one of the most praised and influential writers of the times.