Hate skews reality even more than love. In the story of a Pakistani woman who ha
s begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi's acclaimed
film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka's relationship with his father, reader
s will find Kureishi also exploring the topics that he continues to make new, an
d make his own: growing up and growing old; betrayal and loyalty; imagination an
d repression; marriage and fatherhood. The collection ends with a bravura piece
of very personal reportage about the conman who stole Kureishi's life savings -
a man who provoked both admiration and disgust, obsession and revulsion, love an
d hate.
