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Guy Gunaratne’s blistering debut follows three young men on a London council estate over 48 mad hours when nowhere is safe and everything is at stake.
For Selvon, Ardan and Yusuf, growing up on the Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music, freedom. But after the killing of a British soldier, riots are spreading across the city. While the fury swirls around them, Selvon and Ardan remain focused on their own obsessions, girls and grime. But their friend Yusuf is caught up in a different tide, a wave of radicalism surging through his local mosque.
"Gunaratne has a gift for inhabiting the lives of his characters, and has used that gift here to give voice to Londoners who are not often seen in contemporary fiction, and who will recognize themselves in this very fine novel—wearing the same trainers, speaking the same road slang, rolling out of the same school gates." - Jon McGregor, The New York TImes Book Review
Guy Gunaratne was born in 1984 and is a British novelist, journalist and filmmaker. He studied for a film and television degree at Brunel University in London and then current affairs journalism at the City, University of London. His first novel In Our Mad and Furious City won the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
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