Emigre Journeys by Abdullah Hussein

Emigre Journeys by Abdullah Hussein

As a young man in the early 1960s, Amir leaves his small village in Pakistan to make his way in the world. He comes to Britain as an illegal alien and embarks on a life of dodgy jobs, cheap housing and rip-off landlords, of letters home and dreams of belonging. Thirty years on, Amir now has a home and family, including Parvin, his nineteen-year-old daughter. Parvin has a mind of her own. She answers back, she refuses to do as her father says. As Amir and Parvin battle it out, Amir remembers his early years in Birmingham, specifically a brutal crime of passion which profoundly altered the course of his life. From the leading novelist in the Urdu language, Emigr? Journeys is a poignant comedy of outsiders caught between two worlds and seeking an identity.

A wonderful storyteller -- Literary Review ?Hussein?s unsparing realism makes this a grim * claustrophobic but engrossing story? Sunday Times ?A rich and rewarding work? Scotland on Sunday *

Abdullah Hussein was born in Rawalpindi, India (now Pakistan) in 1937. His first novel, The Weary Generations, was published in 1963 and won the prestigious Pakistani Adamji Prize. In 1996 the BBC based a feature film, Brothers in Trouble, on one of his novellas. Regarded as the leading novelist in the Urdu language, he lived in Britain from 1967 to 1999 when he returned to Pakistan.

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ISBN 13	9781852426385
ISBN 10	1852426381
Title	Emigre Journeys
Author	Abdullah Hussein
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	2000-05-04
Number of pages	256
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