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In these ten wry and exhilarating stories, Hanif Kureishis, author of THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA, THE BLACK ALBUM, and of the screenplays for MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE, SAMMY AND ROSIE GET LAID, LONDON KILLS ME, and MY SON THE FANATIC, brilliantly captures the passion and folly of the human comedy. Written over the span of a decade, LOVE IN A BLUE TIME reveals the essence of a generation--from the liberating irreverence of the seventies to the dilemmas and disillusionments of the nineties.In "With Your Tongue Down My Throat," a Pakistani Girl's visit to London foments a revolution in her conservative home. In "My Son The Fanatic," a father, suspicious of his son's rejection of his once-sacred adolescent possessions, makes an unsettling discovery about the new values of the younger generation. And throughout, men and women, once carefree, careless, and usually stoned, grapple with responsibility, fidelity, and other complications of adult life in the middle-class nineties.Driven by love, but distracted by sex, drugs, and the sheer compulsion of argument, these characters are consummate voices of their time. And Kureishi, naughty, provocative, yet intensely sympathetic, finds the heart of their struggle. "Original and enormously engaging...Kureishi is a clever observer with a sharp eye for decadent details and a wicked ear for dialogue."

"An ebulliently realistic collection....Unlike American minimalists, Kureishi looks outward and into the lives of others, coming back with fiction that is large, rugged, and true....Roguish intelligence is everywhere here."

Kirkus, 09/01/1997

"Kureishi's love of the world has always been the heart beat of his work, and it's most evident when he's writing about family and ethnicity. In fact, his refusal to romanticize race makes him one of those rare artists who can explore the subject without disingenuous piety."

Laura Miller, New York Times Book Review, 11/09/1997

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