Ours Are the Streets

Ours Are the Streets

C format original

Paperback (07 Jan 2011)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Imtiaz Raina, born in Sheffield, young father, young husband, son of loving parents, has decided to die. He has convinced himself that he believes in his cause. And before he leaves home for a final time, he wants to be sure his family understand why. So he decides to write for them, to leave his journey behind.

Raw, funny, tender, furious, vulnerable, selfish, desperate, proud: this is his story.

From the grey hills of Sheffield to the mountainous border of Afghanistan, it's a story about a longing for acceptance that becomes so extreme he will stop at nothing. It's a story about grief, about belonging, about being lost. It's the story behind the news story. A story for our times.

I'm having to stop myself from reading back through what I've written. Keep myself going forward. Need to get to the end.

About the Publisher

Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9780330515801
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
Edition: C format original
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 22
Number of pages: 312
Weight: 350g
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Spine width: 215mm