Saturday Night and Sunday Morning af Sillitoe, Alan (Bog)

Ud af malstrømmen af Alan Silitoe (bog)

Alex ‘Abs’ Brenchley is back. The seven-foot tragedy opens the sequel to Silk Handkerchiefs with the words “2008 was the worst year of my life.” This is the story of that year.. Neon and doors – I’m dead, hell, we’re being pumped in by the dozen – I don’t belong here! – yes you do, sex fiend – to a tight passage – bundles of us trying to get out – bottle-necked against a tunnel of lights – the triple-X, neon and doors, passages to perdition – I shuffle with the masses – nearly there – I notice…a woman – or she notices me – our eyes meet, skinny, late thirties, she is squatting in a doorway, eating a burger, she speaks: “Do you have trouble with the ladies, sir?” Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere sweeps our hyper-emotional hero across England, into the depths of despair and deranged behaviour, towards a mythical destination – The Lady Field – a fabled area of Hampstead Heath where it isn

Softcover book. Published by Pan Macmillan (2011). Forlag: Pan MacMillan Udgivelsesår: 2011 Sider: 563 Sprog: Engelsk

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

An anarchic coming-of-age novel that explores and celebrates Britain in the seventies. Titel: Buddha of suburbia Genre: Fiction Sammendrag: The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is a dreamy teenager, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre announces itself, Karim starts to win the sort of attention he has been craving—albeit with some rude and raucous results. Type: Paperback

Originaltitel: On The Waterfront.

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.

In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and satirical trip through 20th-century Czechoslovakia. First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, "I Served the King of England" is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" ("The New York Times"), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II. Ditie is called upon to serve not the King of England, but Haile Selassie. It is one of the great moments in his life. Eventually, he falls in love with a Nazi woman athlete as the Germans are invading Czechoslovakia. After the war, through the sale of valuable stamps confiscated fr