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THE STUNNINGLY ORIGINAL, ICONOCLASTIC, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA RETURNS WITH HIS FINEST, MOST EXUBERANT NOVEL.
In the early 1980s Hanif Kureishi emerged as one of the most compelling new voices in film and fiction. His movies My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and his novel The Buddha of Suburbia captivated audiences and inspired other artists. In Something to Tell You, he travels back to those days of hedonism, activism and glorious creativity. And he explores the lives of that generation now, in a very different London.
Jamal is middle-aged, though reluctant to admit it. He has an ex-wife, a son he adores, a thriving career as a psychoanalyst and vast reserves of unsatisfied desire. "Secrets are my currency," he says. "I deal in them for a living." And he has some of his own. He is haunted by Ajita, his first love, whom he hasn't seen in decades, and by an act of violence he has never confessed.
With great empathy and agility, Kureishi has created an array of unforgettable characters -- a hilarious and eccentric theater director, a covey of charming and defiant outcasts and an ebullient sister who thrives on the fringe. All wrestle with their own limits as human beings; all are plagued by the past until they find it within themselves to forgive.
Comic, wise and unfailingly tender, Something to Tell You is Kureishi's best work to date, brilliant and exhilarating.
- Sales Rank: #1828177 in Books
- Published on: 2009-10-20
- Released on: 2009-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.10" w x 5.25" l, .68 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Prolific screenwriter, playwright and novelist Kureishi has a gift for smart, sparkling prose and expertly crafted characters, and it is on full display in his latest, the funny and heartbreaking story of Jamal Khan, a successful middle-aged London psychoanalyst dogged by a crushing secret and a long-burning torch for his first love. Jamal's son, Rafi, and ex-wife, Josephine, are still very much involved in Jamal's life, but nobody knows that Jamal is still profoundly in love with his high school girlfriend, Ajita, or that his connection to her is soiled by his complicity in a long-ago violent crime. As an analyst, he knows just how haunting the past can be (Secrets are my currency, he informs the reader), and he makes a convincing and often comedic case that madness is an ordinary, unsurprising part of contemporary life. The father-son relationship is especially brilliant, and Kureishi is adept as ever in balancing humor and his piercing insight into the human condition. (Sept.)
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From Booklist
Jamal is a London-based psychoanalyst who could use some sessions of his own. The middle-aged divorcé continues to be obsessed with thoughts of his first love. He met Ajita at university, and no woman since, including Jamal’s ex-wife, Josephine, has possessed her beauty, brains, and wit. But lost love is not the worst of Jamal’s problems. He has never confessed to the murder he and two shady mates committed during their student years. Kureishi, a Whitbread Prize winner and two-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter (Venus and My Beautiful Laundrette), conjures a confessional tale in which Jamal endlessly ruminates upon the good and ill in his life. It’s a bit wearying at times, despite a colorful cast of characters. Among them: Henry, a quirky theater director and incorrigible gossip; Miriam, Jamal’s mercurial sister, with a conspicuous collection of piercings and tattoos; and London itself, endlessly eclectic and electric. Kureishi has created an intriguing character in Jamal. But the novel’s ending is a letdown, after so much angst and ado. --Allison Block
Review
"A wickedly funny exploration of guilt, loss, love and the very thin line that separates sanity from insanity. 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
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
"I Am Not, I Feel Certain, Finished With Love."
By Foster Corbin
Jamal Khan, the narrator of Hanif Kureishi's outrageously wonderful latest novel SOMETHING TO TELL YOU is one of the most unusual protagonists you are likely to meet. Middle-aged with an expanding midriff, he is a psychoanalyst fond of quoting Freud, Dante, Proust, Faulkner, Updike, et al. with never enough money to support his estranged wife Josephine, his beloved twelve-year-old son Rafi or his own spending habits as he wears green Paul Smith loafers, among other luxuries. The son of a Pakistani father and English mother, he is haunted by his first love, a beautiful Indian woman, and at the same time guilt-ridden because of an unconfessed crime. It is no accident that he refers often to Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov.
Jamal is surrounded by a cast of characters that Kureishi draws with a myriad of details so that they come alive as complex human beings on every page. His sister Miriam, whose face is covered with what the writer calls "nuts and bolts" and whose body is full of tattoos, is a Muslim single mother of either five children by three different men or three children by five men-- Jamal cannot remember. Her new lover Henry is a theatre and film director and her brother's best friend. He is separated from his wife Valerie; their two children are Lisa, a social worker who eschews the material, having once lived in a tree and having thrown paint at McDonald's and, according to one character, probably has dirt between her toes; and Sam who is outraged when he catches his father and Miriam engaged in S/M sex. The beautiful Indian woman is Ajita, who harbors her own dark secret; her brother is Mustag who becomes a popular singer; their father is the owner of a factory in London. There are at least a half dozen more characters just as interesting in this almost four-hundred-page novel that teems with life. London, from the 1970's to the present, particularly the area around West London, becomes a character in itself. Mick Jagger even makes an appearance.
Although there is a lot of sex here in at times a most comical story-- about any variety you can think of from sex clubs, houses of prostitution, orgies, male-female sex, male-male, female-female, you name it-- this novel ultimately is about things most serious: the cancerous effect of guilt, missed opportunities, the dynamics between parents and children, racial prejudice, extremism from both the left and right, the consequences of terrorism,but also hope and the wonder of love and its longevity. Jamal on the subject: "I am not, I feel certain, finished with love, either in its benign or its disorderly form, nor it with me."
Kureishi writes beautifully with such phrases as a "stoned Lady Bracknell," a "Gioconda smile," a "springy Salome," and "the latest supermodel of hysteria [as in Freud], Princess Diana." One of the passages that rises to poetry is Jamal's description of his love for his son: "When he was little, I kissed Rafi continuously, licked his stomach, stuck my tongue in his ear, tickled him, squeezed him until he gasped, laughing at his beard of saliva, his bib looking like an Elizabethan ruff. I loved the intimacy: the boy's wet mouth, the smell of his hair, as I'd loved those of various women."
Finally SOMETHING TO TELL YOU is one fantastic story that you will race through; if there is any justice, it certainly will make the next Booker Prize list.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Kureishi matures and his subjects with him...
By Aleksandra Nita-Lazar
With "Something To Tell You" Hanif Kureishi returns to the soul-searching of the British citizen of mixed, Pakistani-English, descent. While "The Buddha of Suburbia" tackled the problems of adolescence in an immigrant environment in the 1970s, here the main character, Jamal Khan, is a middle-aged, middle-class man who reveals his deepest secrets.
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst, struggling with his relationships, his desires and his past. The narrative is in form of his monologue, interchanging between present and memories, starting in Jamal's childhood.
Jamal provides background information about other main characters: his rebel sister, Miriam, his film director friend, Henry, his friends from college times - Val and Wolf, his soon-to-be ex-wife, Josephine, and his son, Rafi, and, most importantly, on his first love, Ajita, who haunts him and is a reason for his introspective. Ajita, a beautiful, but pained daughter of an Indian factory owner, reveals to Jamal her most intimate secrets - and after his intervention disappears from his life. Since then, Jamal dreams of meeting her again, at the same time dreading the thought of the encounter.
Kureishi's prose, although fresh and original, is dense, full of meaning, requiring attention - skimming through some paragraphs can result in losing track and getting discouraged. There are also sometimes sudden jumps of narrative changing focus from one paragraph to another, anchoring on one word, which leads to the reminiscences connected with it; his memories flow exactly like a monologue at the shrink (an interesting, purposefully devised stylistic maneuver). The story of Jamal's life is told directly, with his own words, but also with what he withholds (and what is still lurking in his unconscious, with sex at the central place), and with the language he uses - there is a lot of intellectual meandering, erudite references to Freud, Lacan and other titans of psychoanalysis. On the other hand, I liked his less bragging remarks of the life in London throughout the times he describes (the "present" is 2005, when the London bombings took place), which really give the picture of the variety of lifestyles and classes. There whole narrative is a little messy in a postmodern way - a lot of important, weighty subject are just touched and put on a big pile from which they are more or less randomly selected - maybe it is really like the unconscious? Jamal's character is interesting and very well constructed - I liked reading about him, but I am not sure if I liked him - he seems unpleasant, despite his efforts to please the people he likes. Maybe it is because he is so lost, but tries to appear self-confident and nonchalant. The whole novel is complex, I guess like anyone's life - outer and inner - and prompted me to think about myself in an analytical way, but because of this complexity it is difficult to describe all that is important there without rambling...
The novel is crafty, the introduction of crucial events is gradual, so there is always enough suspense to keep the reader excited and read till the end. Is Jamal really a murderer, like he claims in the opening paragraphs? Will he meet Ajita again, and if so, what will come out of it?
Of course, in such a novel, one sees traces of others - the obvious one is Woody Allen (because of psychoanalysis and type of humor). I found there also some echoes of Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, if you like those writers plus the Asian-immigrant flavor, this might be a good pick for you.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
3 and a half stars-A broad slice of lives
By Richard A. Tucker
This was not an easy read but it has enough depth and detail to warrant the patience required to finish it. This is a novel that feels very autobiographical and as such has a deep sense of longing for that centrist existense that is denied to us through the act of living. If things are going well for the main character Jamal Khan, then count on it becoming upset. Whether it's his past, which is not as far away as he'd hoped, or dealing with the changing standards of his own sexuality as he accepts his middle age, he has a lot on his plate.
Jamal is a psychoanalyst and one of those who runs with the popular, artistic and elite crowd among London's movers and shakers. He's a minor success but also a peripheral inhabitant of these socially elite. His best friend is a playwright and director named Henry. Henry has a reputation for genius in the theater but now sees his career coming to an end and has a serious mid-life crisis.
Through Henry's friendship Jamal has earned a place among London's artistsic and social elite. This gives him the opportunity to have wealthy clients to offset his expenses and exercise his desire to help the poorer ones.
The one thing that gives me pause here is the way Jamal's attitude towards others or himself is both pragmatic and problematic. He sees the logical problems of human consience and emotional desire. He notes how history shapes us. However, there is no idealogy that allows us to move beyond those influences. Acceptance helps but it is not a cure. I actually like this perspective but I think many would see it as an excuse to remaining flawed and revel in it. The character (and author's) take on the myth of what passes for normal was particularly insightful.
So what we discover as this story unfolds is that the characters are always influenced by their own actions. An incident that is built upon and realized in this story is the central binding concept that we are what we've done, even the huge mistakes that are otherwise considered out of charcater. We cannot move past it but we can resolve to accept it and therefore endeavor to learn from it. Jamal's sister, Miriam is someone who has a hard time moving beyond anything, using her life's mistakes to shore up her fortress until that becomes so unwieldy that it finally collapses with the unexpected onset of a romantic interest in her messy life.
The past that Jamal has tried so hard to insulate himself from only continues to stay one step behind him, whether it's the lust/love he still harbors for his ex-wife, the son who is feeling more neglected and is acting it out, or his long lost love and the one terrible night when he decided to confront her problem.
My reservations with this story is not it's content, though it is more complex than it has to be, a kind writing style that often has more in common with that dreaded stream of consciousness than it does with well paced prose. No, my problem is that the overlapping nature of all the players seems to be an effort at layering the story. It's a heady balancing act. On most levels I understand the need to write it this way but the back and forth timelines are annoying and often thrown in without much effort at determining the context. It also would have helped to set this solidly in a time period. As written devices go this has a way of grounding the reader and making them more personallly involved. On the other hand, based upon the way this was written, the author did not allow himself much wiggle room to introduce such a timeline. A strong argument could be made for such a timeline's inclusion being seen as pure artifice.
I enjoyed the book and will likely read his work again. The perspective of life in London for a Pakistani transplant is also engaging. As, what was once white Western Europe gives way to a more mixed, ethinically diverse culture, we're seeing the grand reshuffling of the world. Voices like those of Hanif Kureishi will make that transition easier to understand and appreciate.
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