Gabriel's Gift A Novel

Gabriel's father, a washed-up rock musician, has been chucked out of the house by Gabriel's mother, who works nights and sleeps days. Lonely Gabriel finds solace in a mysterious connection to his deceased twin, Archie, and in his gift for producing real objects simply by drawing them. Then a chance visit with rock star Lester Jones, his father's former band mate, provides Gabriel with a tool that might help mend his family. All he has to do is figure out how to use it.Hanif Kureishi portrays Gabriel's naive hope and artistic aspirations with the same insight that he brought to the Anglo-Indian experience inThe Buddha of Suburbiaand to infidelity inIntimacy.Gabriel's Giftis a tender meditation on failure, talent, and the power of imagination, and offers a humorous portrait of a generation that only started to think about growing up when its children did.

Hanif Kureishi won England's Whitbread Prize for The Buddha of Suburbia, and received an Oscar nomination for My Beautiful Laundrette. He is also the author of The Black Album and Love in a Blue Time, and he wrote the films Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, London Kills Me, and My Son the Fanatic. He lives in London.