The Black Album
by Hanif Kureishi

Name: The Black Album
Brand: Hanif Kureishi
SKU: 9780571251322
Rating: 2.55 (52 reviews)

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Highlights

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What readers are saying

Readers have mixed opinions about the play's adaptation. Some find the story compelling and appreciate the themes, while others feel it lacks clarity and coherence, especially without prior knowledge of the novel. Many express disappointment in character development and the overall execution of the plot.

Witty and compelling storyInteresting themes and perspectivesCharacters feel underdevelopedSome parts seem rushed

Synopsis

Religion is for the benefit of the masses, not for brain-box types like you.

Those simpletons require strict rules for living, otherwise they would still think the earth sits on three fishes.

But you mind-wallahs must know it's a lot of balls.

An Asian kid from Kent goes to college in London and teams up with a sympathetic group of anti-racists.

But it's 1989, the year of the fatwa, and as Shahid begins a hedonistic affair with his lecturer, his radical Muslim friends want to steer him away from the decadence of the West.

We're not blasted Christians.

We don't turn the other buttock.

We will fight for our people who are being tortured anywhere - in Palestine, Afghanistan, Kashmir, East End!

Hanif Kureishi's witty stage adaptation of his strikingly prescient and acclaimed novel, "The Black Album", humorously considers how the events of 1989 have shaped today's world, where fundamentalism battles liberalism.

A co-production with Tara Arts, "The Black Album" premiered at the National Theatre, London, in July 2009.