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- Antal sider: 528
- Bestillingsnummer: 234286
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If the novel has a fault, it is that its secondary characters are often so full of life that they upstage the principals and this is a fault for which most writers would cheerfully kill.The Guardian
Middle-aged Spread
Piccadilly Book Club trådte sine første spæde skridt i de sene 1980'ere.
Det var perioden, hvor friske unge løver indtog den engelske litterære scene: Martin Amis, Timothy Mo, Hanif Kureishi og Graham Swift for nu at nævne nogle stykker. Bogklubben tilbød alle deres bøger, og vi fik os på et tidspunkt et interview med Timothy Mo, som vi ikke har hørt meget til siden. Jeg håber så sandelig ikke, at vi har haft nogen negativ indflydelse på hans kreativitet.I deres romaner var London i centrum, og læserne blev ført til multikulturelle fester, hvor baner af kokain lå klar til de korpulerende gæster. Nu er forfatterne og deres hovedpersoner blevet midaldrende, og det gør dem langt mere spændende at læse om, for nu er det tid til at stå til regnskab for fortidens synder.
Hovedpersonen i Something to Tell You er Jamal Kahn. Han er i dag en uccesrig psykoanalytiker af den freudianske skole. 'Secrets are my currency' vil han fortælle dig.
Forfattere ved, at psykologer ofte har de største dæmoner at slås med. Jamal har en skilsmisse bag sig, et komplekst forhold til sin 12-årige søn, en gammel flamme fra sine teenageår, han ikke kan glemme, og så har han båret på en hemmelighed i alle disse år, som en dag gør ham til sin kollegas patient. Da han vandrer ud af klinikken, stiller han sig op ad en lygtepæl, kaster op på sin skjorte og tømmer tarmen. 'My insides were on the outside; every one could see me. It wasn't pretty and I had ruined my suit, but something had started'. Han er tæt på at fortælle os sin hemmelighed.
Og så har jeg slet ikke skrevet om romanens store persongalleri.
Pressen skriver
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A wickedly funny exploration of guilt, loss, love and the very thin line that separates sanity from insanity.
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Kureishi's characters are often mad, bad or dangerous to know and all the more delicious for it. This novel, like its other subject, London, bursts at the seams with energy, high -- in equal measure -- on anxiety and a lust for life
- Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane
- Læs mere
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Teeming with unusual characters, acute observations of life in London and insights into the complexities of sex, families and middle age.
- Sunday Telegraph
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Like the city it mourns and celebrates, Something to Tell You is unruly and intermittently beautiful. This is the novel as urban sprawl.
- David Leavitt, The Washington Post
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The father-son relationship is especially brilliant, and Kureishi is adept as ever in balancing humor and his piercing insight into the human condition.
- Publishers Weekly
Uddrag
CHAPTER ONE:
Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of
desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most.
A woman has just left my consulting room. Another will arrive in twenty minutes. I adjust the cushions on the analytic couch and relax in my armchair in a different silence, sipping tea, considering images, sentences and words from our conversation, as well as the joins and breaks between them.
As I do often these days, I begin to think over my work, the problems I struggle with, and how this came to be my livelihood, my vocation, my enjoyment. It is even more puzzling to me to think that my work began with a murder - today is the anniversary, but how do you mark such a thing? - followed by my first love, Ajita, going away forever.
I am a psychoanalyst. In other words, a reader of minds and signs. Sometimes I am called shrinkster, healer, detective, opener of doors, dirt digger or plain charlatan or fraud. Like a car mechanic on his back, I work with the underneath or understory: fantasies, wishes, lies, dreams, nightmares - the world beneath the world, the true words beneath the false. The weirdest intangible stuff I take seriously; I'm into places where language can't go, or where it stops - the "indescribable" - and early in the morning too.
Giving sorrow other words, I hear of how people's desire and guilt upsets and terrorises them, the mysteries that burn a hole in the self and distort and even cripple the body, the wounds of experience, reopened for the good of the soul as it is made over.
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