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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 of 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.
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The Black Album, Hanif Kureishi
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- 1995
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- Title
- The Black Album
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Hanif Kureishi
- Publisher
- faber and faber
- Publisher
- 1995
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0571177123
- ISBN13
- 9780571177127
- Category
- World prose
- Description
- 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 of 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.