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  • My Ear at His Heart

  • By: Hanif Kureishi
  • Narrated by: Ace Bhatti
  • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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My Ear at His Heart

By: Hanif Kureishi
Narrated by: Ace Bhatti
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Summary

A remarkable insight into the birth of a writer and the moving discovery of family secrets.

When Hanif Kureishi discovers an abandoned manuscript of his father's, his understanding of the family history is transformed. So begins a journey which takes Kureishi through his father's privileged childhood by the sea in Bombay, to the trauma of partition and to his adult life hidden away in the suburbs of Bromley - his days spent as a minor functionary in the Pakistan embassy in London, his nights writing prose, hopeful of one day receiving literary recognition.

This is a book about his father's failed career as a writer and the beginnings of Kureishi's successful career as one - as his father looks on with pride and perhaps envy.

©2004 Hanif Kureishi (P)2018 Audible, Ltd
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