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The Go-Between : A Portrait of Growing up Between Different World
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- EX-LIBRARY
- Publication Name
- Canongate Books
- ISBN
- 9781786893529
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Publisher
Canongate Books
ISBN-10
1786893525
ISBN-13
9781786893529
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15073783473
Product Key Features
Book Title
Go-Between : a Portrait of Growing Up between Different Worlds
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Religious
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.7 in
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Yousefzada'sfunny and fascinating story of moving between two cultures . . . this memoira welcome exploration of time and place, The Go-Between is a portrait of the artist as a young man in a strictly religious immigrant community. Its colorful, compulsively readable evocation of childhood clashes between faith and self, family and freedom, is profoundly moving and beautifully wrought. Yousefzada's journey from the home of an illiterate seamstress, shadowed by domestic violence, is extraordinary to witness. This debut is both an essential meditation on identity, and a transcendently great story, Arresting . . . skilled . . . moving . . . What really lingers are the vividnesses of [Yousefzada's] childhood world, the struggles and griefs of his parents, and especially of his mother, to whose life he bears loving witness, Richly told, this is a portrait of 1980s Birmingham as we've never seen it before. Osman's love for his people spills from the pages, even as he tenderly explores the conflict that arises within them. Truly powerful, evocative storytelling, Osman's compelling and humane memoir shines light into a hidden world I didn't realise existed down the road from me. It's an essential book that will help you understand multicultural Britain in all its complexities, That rare thing, a memoir that reads like a novel; a page-turner full of love, wisdom and yearning that examines what it means for the outsider to belong and the winding route that takes us there. I loved it, 'A beautifully observed and funny book' - Guardian 'I don't think I properly understood the true nature of multiculturalism before reading Osman Yousefzada's The Go-Between . Only really good writing can bring alive the truth, the colour, the reality and the meaning of an experience like Osman's. And he really is a good writer. Through his eyes, as he moves from boyhood to adolescence, one gets such a palpable sense of worlds and cultures that seem so eternally incompatible and yet which somehow manage to co-exist, albeit uneasily and sometimes at a real cost for those trapped in the no man's land between the front lines of each. I read with such pleasure, terror, amusement, admiration and fascination - it is surely one of the great childhood memoirs of our times.' - Stephen Fry 'Osman's compelling and humane memoir shines light into a hidden world I didn't realise existed down the road from me. It's an essential book that will help you understand multiculturalism in all its complexities' - Sathnam Sanghera 'What Elena Ferrante does for Italy, Yousefzada's The Go-Between does for Immigrant Britain' - Dazed 'Yousefzada's funny and fascinating story of moving between two cultures . . . this memoir is a welcome exploration of time and place' - Stylist 'A portrait of the artist as a young man in a strictly religious immigrant community. Its colourful, compulsively readable evocation of childhood clashes between faith and self, family and freedom, is profoundly moving and beautifully wrought. Yousefzada's journey from the home of an illiterate seamstress, shadowed by domestic violence, is extraordinary to witness. This debut is both an essential meditation on identity, and a transcendently great story' - Katie Roiphe 'Yousefzada is a gifted storyteller who writes with such tender care' - Mona Arshi, This unmissable memoir sheds light on a largely unseen part of our shared cultural history, told with warmth and insight, Through inspiring, humorous and at times harrowing vignettes, Yousefzada explores his struggles with the dual burdens of racism and cultural expectations, It's fascinating; sometimes humorous, sometimes harrowing, but always beautifully and evocatively written, The Go-Between is a memoir, but it is also an unstitching of memory's fabric and a fiercely unpretentious reckoning with family and home, Profoundand universal . . . a remarkable insight into multicultural Britain and thepain inherent in following your own path
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
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Dewey Decimal
746.92092
Synopsis
An enlightening memoir of living between worlds and learning how to find one's own - from the artist and fashion designer, A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the tracks. The adult world is seen through Osman's eyes as a child: his own devout Pashtun patriarchal community, with its divide between the world of men and women, living cheek-by-jowl with parallel migrant communities. The orthodox attend a mosque down the road from the prostitutes and pimps. Children balance Western school teachings with cultural traditions. Alternative masculinities compete with strict gender roles, and female erasure and honour-based violence are committed, even as empowering female friendships prevail. The stories Osman tells, some fantastical and humorous, others melancholy and even harrowing, take us from the Birmingham of Osman's childhood to the banks of the river Kabul and the river Indus, and, eventually, to the London of his teenage years. Osman weaves in and out of these worlds, struggling with the dual burdens of racism and community expectations, as he is forced to realise it is no longer possible to exist in the spaces in between. 'I read with such pleasure, terror, amusement, admiration and fascination - it is surely one of the great childhood memoirs of our times.' - Stephen Fry, A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the tracks.
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