Shattered - Kureishi, Hanif
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From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed.
'I've never felt tempted to use the word "inspirational" about a book, and promise I never will again, but it's the only word I can think of to describe Shattered' Lynn Barber, The Spectator
Imagine your life changing in a second: one minute you are watching the football with a beer, the next you are on the floor in a pool of blood, deprived of the use of your arms and legs. This fall renders you paralysed, robbed of your independence, entirely reliant on others for…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed.

'I've never felt tempted to use the word "inspirational" about a book, and promise I never will again, but it's the only word I can think of to describe Shattered' Lynn Barber, The Spectator

Imagine your life changing in a second: one minute you are watching the football with a beer, the next you are on the floor in a pool of blood, deprived of the use of your arms and legs. This fall renders you paralysed, robbed of your independence, entirely reliant on others for everything.

This happened to writer Hanif Kureishi on Boxing Day 2022. His account of what happened and its aftermath is a unique, riveting and frequently riotous account of a year-long odyssey home through five hospitals. From despair to hope, rage to courage, it might be the most truthful, and the funniest, medical disaster story ever written.

'Incredible. A remarkable tale ofresilience - and surprisingly funny' iNews

'Heartbreaking. [A] masterpiece of British stoicism. Intimate, brave and uplifting' Independent

'Wildly inspiring. His singular voice, his bawdy humour, his efforts to create meaning, all so characteristic and moving' Guardian
Autorenporträt
Hanif Kureishi grew up in Kent and studied philosophy at King's College London. His novels include The Buddha of Suburbia, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, The Black Album, Intimacy and The Last Word. His screenplays include My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and Le Week-End. He has also published several collections of short stories. He has been awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and been translated into thirty-six languages.
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Extraordinary, unique and unputdownable . . . an exceptional volume as original as Jean-Dominique Bauby's stroke classic The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [and] as profound and affected as Salman Rushdie's Knife . . . This fall provoked a rare, and inspiring, defiance . . . Shattered, with its unique authorship, has become a life-saver. For the reader, this compounds the intensity of its witness Robert McCrum Independent

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Rezensentin Marion Löhndorf empfiehlt Hanif Kureishis Bericht über seine Querschnittslähmung als Liebeserklärung an das Leben. Der Autor legt laut Rezensentin keinen Elendsbericht vor, sondern erzählt mit grimmigem Humor vom Schock des Ereignisses, das den Autor plötzlich ereilt, aus dem Leben reißt und in die Parallelwelt der Krankenhäuser und Reha-Spitale schleudert. Kureishi erzählt von der Illusion des Normalen und wie sein Körper zu etwas Öffentlichem wird, von alten und neuen Freunden, von der Einsamkeit, vom Schreiben und auch von seinem früheren Leben, seiner Kindheit und Jugend. Vor allem Kureishis Direktheit scheint Löhndorf lesenswert.

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