My Ear at His Heart

'Hanif Kureishi's literary memoir explores his relationship with his father, a failed writer. Kurieshi is, of course, hugely successful...' <i>Esquire</i><br><br><b>Amongst a batch of papers, Hanif Kureishi discovered an abandoned manuscript - a novel, written by his father. And so begins a journey which takes him through his father's childhood by the sea in India to an adult life in the suburbs of Bromley. <i>My Ear at His Heart</i> offers remarkable insight into Hanif Kureishi's literary calling, coming from the ashes of his father's own attempts years before. </b><br><br>'This is an ambitious book. Kureshi - free-associating with what feels like unmitigated honesty - successfully conveys the impression that in this book he has actually given us himself.' <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>'Deeply involving, highly intelligent and, in what it doesn't say rather than what it does, profoundly sad.' <i>Evening Standard</i><br><br>'I don't think he has done anything as good, in any medium, as this moving and fiercely honest book.' <i>Guardian</i><br><i></i>