Something to Tell You A Novel

THE STUNNINGLY ORIGINAL, ICONOCLASTIC, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OFTHE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIARETURNS 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 moviesMy Beautiful LaundretteandSammy and Rosie Get Laidand his novelThe Buddha of Suburbiacaptivated audiences and inspired other artists. InSomething 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 Youis Kureishi's best work to date, brilliant and exhilarating.

Hanif Kureishi won the prestigious Whitbread Prize for The Buddha of Suburbia and was twice nominated for Oscars for best original screenplay (My Beautiful Laundrette and Venus, which starred Peter O’Toole). In 2010 Kureishi received the prestigious PEN/Pinter Prize. He lives in London.