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The Last Word
The Last Word | Hanif Kureishi
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Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England - but now, in his early 70s, his reputation is fading, sales have dried up, and his new wife has expensive taste.Harry, a young writer, is commissioned to write a biography to revitalise both Mamoon's career and his bank balance. Harry greatly admires Mamoon's work and wants to uncover the truth of the artist's life. Harry's publisher seeks a more naked truth, a salacious tale of sex and scandal that will generate headlines. Meanwhile Mamoon himself is mining a different vein of truth altogether.Harry and Mamoon find themselves in a battle of wills, but which of them will have the last word?The ensuing struggle for dominance raises issues of love and desire, loyalty and betrayal, and the frailties of age versus the recklessness of youth.Hanif Kureishi has created a tale brimming with youthful exuberance, as hilarious as it is touching, where words have the power to forge a world.
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The Last Word | Hanif Kureishi
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“Talking is the most dangerous form of intercourse.”
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Simona
The Last Word | Hanif Kureishi
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TBR - library edition.
From the top: - R.Vilčnik, The Man With a View (my translation)
- J. Van Mersbergen, The Last Escape (my translation)
- M.Barbery,The Life of Elves
- J.S.Foer, Everything is Illuminated
- U.Eco, Numero Zero

#funfridayphoto with @Liberty

Gissy Only Barbery books seemed the one translated! I will try then since she has others. 👍 8y
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