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Reviewed on December 1, 2014 | Fiction
The fraught relationship between a biographer and his subject is at the heart of this uneven satire by screenwriter (My Beautiful Laundrette) and Whitbread First Novel Award winner (The Buddha of Suburbia) Kureishi. Renowned Indian writer Mamoon Azam has fallen off the literati's radar. Hoping to burnish his reputation before he dies, Mamoon opens his home to an ambitious, naïve young writer named Harry, who worships the old man and dreams of pen...Log In or Sign Up to Read More