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Shahid, perilously fond of sex, music, and drugs, attends a lusterless community college in London. He wants to please the conservative Muslims in the flat next door, but is enthralled by the gorgeous, flamboyant, radical college lecturer Deedee Osgood. Shahid is also caught in a nasty battle between his arch-feminist, exceedingly wealthy Indian sister-in-law and his suave brother Chili, who puts all his income up his nose or into Armani suits.

"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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