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The protagonist of this novel is a 15-year-old North London schoolboy called Gabriel. He is forced to come to terms with a new life, and use his gift for painting in order to make sense of his world, once the equilibrium of the family has been shattered by his father's departure.
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"Smart, sensitive and brisk . . . Gabriel's Gift does what many of us are unable to do: It plumbs through the small deceits and cheap antagonisms of everyday family life and emerges open-eyed and smiling."--Matthew Craft, The Hartford Courant
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Hanif Kureishi won England's prestigious Whitbread Prize for his first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia. He received an Oscar nomination for his first screenplay, My Beautiful Laundrette. Kureishi is also the author of The Black Album and Love in a Blue Time, as well as of the films, Sammy and Rose Get Laid, London Kills Me, and My Son the Fanatic. His second collection of stories, Midnight All Day, has just been published in one volume along with his controversial 1999 novel, Intimacy, which has been adapted for the screen. Kureishi lives in London.
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0571210856
- ISBN 13 9780571210855
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages178
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