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180825t20072006xxk 000 1 eng|| |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9780007231768 |
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(UkLoUWL)9780007231768 |
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TA |
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UkLoUWL |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Malkani, Gautam. |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Londonstani / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Gautam Malkani. |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Harper Perennial, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2007. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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384 pages |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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text |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
London Fiction Collection |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
‘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. |
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London (England) |
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Fiction. |
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Do not suppress from OPAC |