Description
| Product ID: | 9780330515818 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Ours are the Streets |
| Authors: | Author: Sunjeev Sahota |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Following the journey of a British Muslim and his fall into Islamist radicalization. <p><b>From Yorkshire to Afghanistan, <i>Ours are the Streets</i> is a poignant and powerful story of political radicalization by Sunjeev Sahota, author of Man Booker Prize shortlisted <i>The Year of the Runaways.</i></b><br><br>When Imtiaz Raina leaves England for the first time, to bury his father on his family’s land near Lahore, he exchanges his uncertain life in Sheffield for a road that leads to the mountains of Kashmir and Afghanistan.<br><br> Once back in Yorkshire, he writes through the night to his young wife Becka and baby daughter Noor, and tries to explain, in a story full of affection and yearning, what has happened to him – and why he has a devastating new sense of home.<br><br><b>'What Sahota creates is not an exploration of the psyche of a suicide bomber, but an exploration of a man.' – <i>Yorkshire Post</i><br></b><br><b>'What is most chilling, and most successful, is that it all seems so familiar, so close and so easy.' – <i>Sunday Times</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-09-02 |
