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'Londonstani' Gautam Malkani's electrifying debut reveals a Britain that has never before been explored in the novel: a country of young Asians and white boys (desis and goras) trying to work out a place for themselves in the shadow of the divergent cultures of their parents' generation. Set close to the Heathrow feed roads of Hounslow Malkani shows us the lives of a gang of four young men: Hardjit the ring leader a Sikh violent determined his caste stay pure; Ravi determinedly tactless a sheep following the herd; Amit whose brother Arun is struggling to win the approval of his mother for the Hindu girl he has chosen to marry; and Jas who tells us of his journey with these three desperate to win their approval desperate too for Samira a Muslim girl which in this story can only have bad consequences. Together they cruise the streets in Amit's enhanced Beemer making a little money changing the electronic fingerprints on stolen mobile phones a scam that leads them into more dangerous waters.Funny crude disturbing written in the vibrant language of its protagonists -- a mix of slang Bollywood texting Hindu and bastardised gangsta rap -- 'Londonstani' is about many things: tribalism aggressive masculinity integration cross-cultural chirpsing techniques the urban scene seeping into the mainstream bling bling economics 'complicated family-related shit'. It is one of the most surprising British novels of recent years.
- 0007231768
- 9780007231768
- Gautam Malkani
- 2 April 2007
- Harper Perennial
- Paperback (Book)
- 362
- 1st
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