Shattered
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2025<BR><BR>From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed.<BR><BR>___________________<BR><BR>'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.'<BR><BR>On Boxing Day 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, in a pool of blood, he was horrified to realise he had lost the use of his limbs.<BR><BR>He could no longer walk, write or wash himself. He could do nothing without the help of others, and required constant care in a hospital. So began an odyssey of a year through the medical systems of Rome and Italy, with the hope of somehow being able to return home, to his house in London.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>'Moving, funny, remarkable' Richard Eyre<BR><BR>'Extraordinary, unique and unputdownable' Independent
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