Londonstani SIGNED (1st Edition . First Print thus)
Gautam Malkani * SIGNED Limited Edition *
Language: English
Published by Fourth Estate, 2006
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- Hardcover
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SIGNED limited edition of 400 by Gautam Malkani . Book is Unread . Front/Back: New . Spine: New . Printing: First (1st) impression . Year 2006.
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- Title
- Londonstani SIGNED (1st Edition . First Print thus)
- Author
- Gautam Malkani * SIGNED Limited Edition *
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 000723175X
- ISBN 13
- 9780007231751
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- First (1st) Printing
‘Londonstani’, Gautam Malkani's electrifying debut, reveals a Britain that has never before been explored in the novel: a country of young Asians and white boys (desis and goras) trying to work out a place for themselves in the shadow of the divergent cultures of their parent’s generation.
Set close to the Heathrow feed roads of Hounslow, Malkani shows us the lives of a gang of four young men: Hardjit the ring leader, a Sikh, violent, determined his caste stay pure; Ravi, determinedly tactless, a sheep following the herd; Amit, whose brother Arun is struggling to win the approval of his mother for the Hindu girl he has chosen to marry; and Jas who tells us of his journey with these three, desperate to win their approval, desperate too for Samira, a Muslim girl, which in this story can only have bad consequences. Together they cruise the streets in Amit's enhanced Beemer, making a little money changing the electronic fingerprints on stolen mobile phones, a scam that leads them into more dangerous waters.
Funny, crude, disturbing, written in the vibrant language of its protagonists – a mix of slang, Bollywood, texting, Hindu and bastardised gangsta rap – ‘Londonstani’ is about many things: tribalism, aggressive masculinity, integration, cross-cultural chirpsing techniques, the urban scene seeping into the mainstream, bling bling economics, ‘complicated family-related shit’. It is one of the most surprising British novels of recent years.
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About the Author
Gautam Malkani was born in Hounslow. He edits the Financial Times Creative Business Pages. This is his first novel.
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