My Beautiful Laundrette and Other Writings

By Hanif Kureishi

Whitbread Prize winner Kureshi is one of a new generation of British writers whose experience is refracted through his Pakistani heritage. These collected screenplays and essays also include My Son the Fanatic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571177387
• ISBN13: 9780571177387
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign

Hanif Kureishi is one of a new generation of British writers whose experience of the United Kingdom is refracted, socially and culturally, through his Pakistani heritage. My Beautiful Laundrette brings together the script of Hanif Kureishi's recent award-winning film with a long autobiographical on the nature of the Pakistani experience, The Rainbow Sign. --- from book's back cover