Shattered

While confined to a series of hospital wards, he felt compelled to write, but being unable to type or to hold a pen, he began to dictate to family members the words which formed in his head. The result was an extraordinary series of dispatches from his hospital bed - a diary of a life in pieces, recorded with rare honesty, clarity and courage.

As Hanif wrote, early on: ''A few days ago, a bomb went off in my life, but this bomb has also shattered the lives of those around me. My partner, my children, my friends.''

This book takes these hospital dispatches - edited, expanded and meticulously interwoven with new writing - and charts both a shattering and a reassembling: a new life born of pain and loss, but animated by new feelings - of gratitude, humility and love.<>

About the author

Hanif Kureishi

Report

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

Product details

• Authors: Hanif Kureishi, Kureishi Hanif
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2024
• EAN: 9780241667958
• ISBN: 978-0-241-66795-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Prose: non-fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Rome, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / People with Disabilities, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Literary essays, Biography and non-fiction prose, Autobiography: writers, HEALTH & FITNESS / Mental Health, c 2020 to c 2029, Relating to British South Asian people, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General