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One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I am sure they are making love in Zenab's bedroom which is next to mine.
Waldo, a fêted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment. Frail and frustrated, he is cared for by his lovely younger wife, Zee. But when he suspects that Zee is beginning an affair with Eddie, 'more than an acquaintance and less than a friend for over thirty years,' Waldo is pressed to action: determined to expose the couple, he sets himself first to prove his suspicions correct - and then to enact his revenge.
Written with characteristic black humour and with an acute eye for detail, Kureishi's eagerly awaited novella will have his readers dazzled once again by a brilliant mind at work.
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Hanif Kureishi's short, sharp tale of revenge is diabolical fun -- Fiona Wilson, The Times Published On: 2017-04-29
Hanif Kureishi delivers a monstrous three-hander in this novel of a frail film director, GQ Magazine Published On: 2017-06-01
A punchy, disturbing fable. -- Alex Clark, Guardian
This slight addition to the Hanif Kureishi canon, by turns funny, farcical, and disquieting, is set in the twilight years of celebrated director Waldo. -- John Harding, Daily Mail Published On: 2017-05-05
Waldo's imaginative life in The Nothing may be destructive, but his creator's is as nourishing as ever. -- Maggie Fergusson, Newsweek Published On: 2017-05-12
Admirers of his earlier fiction will be happy to learn that his appetite for sexual riffs, describing sucking and rimming, or anatomising "the humiliation of desire" has not abated. But London, the alluring setting of The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), is no longer a source of wonder. "I preferred the soot-black, more derelict London, which had some sublimity in its post-war despair," bemoans Waldo. Death and dolefulness permeate every page, but so does a pleasingly lubricious impishness. -- Sukhdev Sandu, Observer Published On: 2017-05-07
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Hanif Kureishi delivers a monstrous three-hander in this novel of a frail film director, GQ Magazine Published On: 2017-06-01
A punchy, disturbing fable. -- Alex Clark, Guardian
This slight addition to the Hanif Kureishi canon, by turns funny, farcical, and disquieting, is set in the twilight years of celebrated director Waldo. -- John Harding, Daily Mail Published On: 2017-05-05
Waldo's imaginative life in The Nothing may be destructive, but his creator's is as nourishing as ever. -- Maggie Fergusson, Newsweek Published On: 2017-05-12
Admirers of his earlier fiction will be happy to learn that his appetite for sexual riffs, describing sucking and rimming, or anatomising "the humiliation of desire" has not abated. But London, the alluring setting of The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), is no longer a source of wonder. "I preferred the soot-black, more derelict London, which had some sublimity in its post-war despair," bemoans Waldo. Death and dolefulness permeate every page, but so does a pleasingly lubricious impishness. -- Sukhdev Sandu, Observer Published On: 2017-05-07
The Nothing is Hanif Kureishi's powerful new work: a tense and captivating exploration of lust, helplessness, and deception.
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