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When Shahid, a clean-cut young man with a shady brother, comes to London after the death of his father, he intends to study hard and further his education. But when his relationship with a college lecturer, Deedee Osgood, becomes intimate, his life is turned suddenly upside down. "The Black Album" takes place in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall came down, and is set against the London rave scene and the conflict between liberalism and fundamentalism.

"The conflict between assimilation and ethnic pride animates this vigorous picaresque by the Pakistani-born English screenwriter...and author....The novel's loose construction leads it to a predictably open-ended conclusion, but that's seems perfectly appropriate for a coming-of-age tale whose unformed hero can't decide from one moment to the next whether he's to become a dutiful son and brother, a great novelist, or the happily exhausted boytoy of a splendidly voracious woman. Furthermore, Kureishi's ever-so-slightly aslant diction and syntax provide dozens of gratifying little surprises, as do his vivid, off-the-wall metaphors....An agreeable mess, but then so is the protagonist--an endearingly distracted pursuer of the Ultimate Good who likes just as well the taste and feel of the here and now."

Hanif Kureishi, 08/21-28/1995

"[Kureishi] writes marvelously quirky dialogue laced with unexpected images and word choices....'The Black Album' is worth reading for its wit, narrative momentum, and verbal virtuosity."

Kirkus, 07/15/1995

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