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‘The aspirational gangsta swirls us into a bhuna of gang-fights, inter-faith romance and organised crime, and the dizzying humour that underpins his voice is sharp, clever and convincing...In a linguistic politics redolent of Sam Selvon, Victor Headley and Irvine Welsh, Malkani conveys with élan and expertise, through a sub-urban “desi-dialect”, the absurdity of adolescence and the complex self deceptions of contemporary cultural dynamics in the UK.’ Independent
‘Malkani has some interesting observations about identity and the way in which the culturally oppressed can take strength from their exclusion. The end is a complete surprise and forces the reader to question the skin-deep assumptions we make about race.’ Sunday Telegraph
‘”Londonstani” is a bold debut, brimming with energy and authenticity.' Observer
‘If you’re going to read one yoofy, “urban” book this summer, make sure it’s “Londonstani”!’ Arena Magazine
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. New York: The Penguin Press, 2006. BRAND NEW in perfect condition. NOT print on demand edition -- we have only this 1 but it is available to ship TODAY. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. NO owner's name or bookplate. 2006. First edition - Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Bound in the original full color pictorial wraps. 6" wide by 9.25" tall. From the rear cover: "Jas is in trouble. Because of who he is -- an eighteen-year-old Asian living in London. Because of the gang he hangs out with. And because of the woman he fancies, Samira, who Jas shouldn't have taken a shining to because she is, as his pals point out, not one of his own. He's in trouble because his education, never mind his career, is going nowhere. And he's fallen into the schemes, games and prejudices of his friends on the streets of the metropolis in which he lives. But Jas's main trouble is Jas himself, and he doesn't even know the trouble he's in, and try as hard as he does, he's failing to make sense of what it is to be young, male and what you might say is Indostani in a city that professes to be a melting pot but is a city of racial and religious exclusion zones. Without his parents' aspirations to assimilate, without the gifts of his more academically accomplished contemporaries, Jas is a young man without a survival plan to get by in the big city. He's out of touch, an anachronism posing as young man who's up-to-date, living free-style, making things up as he goes along in suburbs of West London. Gautam Malkani's extraordinary comic novel portrays the lives of young Muslim, Sikh and Hindu men in the ethnically charged enclave of one of the biggest western cities, London." . 1st edition - Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Softcover. New. (viii), 343pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. 1st edition - Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Seller Inventory # 021670