A01=Gurnaik Johal
Author_Gurnaik Johal
BAME fiction
BLM
Brick Lane
British Asian
British Indian
British Punjabi
Bryan Washington
Buddha of Suburbia
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debut fiction
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Hanif Kureishi
Heathrow
India
Indian
Indian fiction
Jhumpa Lahiri
London fiction
London novel
London stories
Monica Ali
Punjabi
Southall
White Teeth
writers of colour
Yiyun Li
Zadie Smith
Product details
- ISBN 9781788169479
- Weight: 192g
- Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 06 Apr 2023
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF SARASWATI, SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT PRIZE
'A debut collection of such precocity and aplomb that it stands comparison to the likes of Junot Díaz and Bryan Washington' Observer
'Moving, truthful, straight from the heart' Neel Mukherjee
'These are excellent stories, told with skill and verve' Jon McGregor
'Delicate, controlled and moving' Colin Barrett
Here, beneath the planes circling Heathrow, various lives connect. Priti speaks English and her nani Punjabi. Without Priti's mum around they struggle to make a shared language. Not far away, Chetan and Aanshi's relationship shifts when a woman leaves her car in their drive but never returns to collect it. Gujan's baba steps out of his flat above the chicken shop for the first time in years to take his grandson on a bicycle tour of the old and changed neighbourhood. And returning home after dropping out of university, Lata grapples with a secret about her estranged family friend, now a chart-topping rapper in a crisis of confidence.
Mapping an area of West London, these stories chart a wider narrative about the movement of multiple generations of immigrants. In acts of startling imagination, Gurnaik Johal's debut brings together the past and the present, the local and the global, to show the surprising ways we come together.
Gurnaik Johal is a writer from West London born in 1998. He was shortlisted for The Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize in 2018 and graduated from The University of Manchester in 2019.
