Buddha of suburbia af Hanif Kureishi (Bog)

En desperat og gennemført rrspektløs historie om Karim Amir, derleve ri 1970'ern ei en London-forstad med en engelsk mor og en indisk far.

For Shahid - London-studerende med muslimsk baggrund - er 1989 en tid præget af racemodsætninger, religiøse stridigheder, IRA-terror, stoffer og vilde fester. Og han har svært ved at finde et ståsted Titel: The black album Genre: Thriller Sammendrag: Shahid, a clean-cut young man from the provinces, comes to London after the death of his father. In the capital he falls in love with Deedee Osgood, a college lecturer, and finds himself passionately embroiled in a spiritual battle between liberalism and fundamentalism. The Black Album is set in the London of 1989, the year after the second summer of love and the year the infamous fatwah was imposed on Salman Rushdie. It is a thriller for the rave generation by one of the most praised and influential writers of the times. Type: Paperback

Intimitet af Hanif Kureishi

Den unge Shahid Hasan fra Kent studerer i London, hvor han bliver involveret i både intellektuelle og seksuelle relationer, samt i en gruppe muslimske aktivister. Han står over for udfordringer med både gruppernes ideologier og familære problemer. Året er 1989 i en tid med store samfundsomvæltninger, hvilket skaber dramatik for Shahid. Type: Paperback Den unge Shahid Hasan er kommet fra Kent til London for at studere. Han bliver dybt involveret, både intellektuelt og seksuelt, i sin noget ældre professor Deedee Osgood og falder samtidig i med en gruppe muslimske aktivister, hvis karismatiske leder har en nabo til. Det er ikke problemfrit. Endnu værre bliver det, da Shahids gangster-storebror, Chili, søger tilflugt i hans studenterhybel. Det er London, 1989. Året for Berlinmurens fald og udgivelsen af Salman Rushdies 'De sataniske vers'. Vi følger Shahids åndelige og sociale udvikling i e

Humoristisk og dybt satirisk roman om en ung mand, som sammen med en flok ligesinede drager ud på den "klassiske dannelsestur" til Indien på jagt efter billige stoffer, uforpligtende sex og spirituelle oplevelser Titel: Indien tur/retur Forfatter: William Sutcliffe Forlag: Borgen Udgivelsesår: 2001 Sider: 237 Sprog: Dansk

Will doesn't want children and can't see why everyone keeps recommending them. But he does see the point of single mothers, especially if they look like Julie Christie. Which is how he gets involved in a single parents' group and invents a two year old son whose absence needs constant explanations. Forfatter: Nick Hornby Forlag: Indigo Udgivelsesår: 1998 Sider: 286 Sprog: Engelsk

Ud af malstrømmen af Alan Silitoe (bog)

Summary: It gets into your bones. You don't even realise it, until you're driving through it, watching all the things you've always known and leaving them behind. Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are escaping the city in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of stolen money. Taking us back in time - and into the heart of London - The Bricks that Built the Houses explores a cross-section of contemporary urban life with a powerful moral microscope, giving us intimate stories of hidden lives, and showing us that good intentions don't always lead to the right decisions. Leading us into the homes and hearts of ordinary people, their families and their communities, Kate Tempest exposes moments of beauty, disappointment, ambition and failure. Wise but never cynical, driven by empathy and ethics, The Bricks the Built the Houses questions how we live with and love one another Forla