- Publisher: Faber
- Year: 2019
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 34pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 160x110mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0kg
- ISBN: 9780571356157
- Product code: 515636
My Son the Fanatic
Faber Stories
Hanif Kureishi New Paperback
Postscript summary
Since moving to the UK, Pakistani taxi driver Parvez has embraced Western life, while his son, Ali, has turned to radical Islam. Ultimately, their culture clash escalates to the point that the reader must question which man is the true fanatic.
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I'm going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house.
When Parvez's son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he's taking drugs and selling his possessions to pay for them. His fellow taxi drivers are triumphant: they knew something was wrong. Bettina, the prostitute Parvez regularly drives home, tells him what signs to look out for.
But nothing is physically different about Ali except that he is growing a beard - and praying five times a day. He condemns his father for drinking alcohol and eating bacon, and assures him that the Law of Islam will rule the world.
First published in March 1994, Hanif Kureishi's comedy of assimilation is both uproariously funny and so prescient it's barely funny at all.
When Parvez's son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he's taking drugs and selling his possessions to pay for them. His fellow taxi drivers are triumphant: they knew something was wrong. Bettina, the prostitute Parvez regularly drives home, tells him what signs to look out for.
But nothing is physically different about Ali except that he is growing a beard - and praying five times a day. He condemns his father for drinking alcohol and eating bacon, and assures him that the Law of Islam will rule the world.
First published in March 1994, Hanif Kureishi's comedy of assimilation is both uproariously funny and so prescient it's barely funny at all.
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Since moving to the UK, Pakistani taxi driver Parvez has embraced Western life, while his son, Ali, has turned to radical Islam. Ultimately, their culture clash escalates to the point that the reader must question which man is the true fanatic.
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