{"product_id":"mister-mister-9781472250230","title":"Mister Mister","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Enthralling'' \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eCulture Preview\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A quicksilver astonishment of a book. Just read it'' Kiran Millwood Hargrave\u003cbr\u003e''A vital novel of newness and nowness'' Raymond Antrobus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A rollercoaster coming of age picaresque'' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e New Statesman, Vogue, Guardian and Big Issue \u003c\/i\u003e2023 Fiction Pick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIdiot, poet, jihadist, son.  Who is Yahya Bas? An exuberantly imaginative novel of Britishness and unbelonging from the prizewinning author of \u003ci\u003eIn Our Mad and Furious City\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Yahya Bas finds himself in a UK detention centre after fleeing the conflict in Syria, he has many questions to face. What was he doing in the desert? Why does he hate this country? Why did he write the incendiary verses which turned him into an online sensation and a media pariah?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMister, his interrogator, wants to keep him locked up. So he decides to tell his life story. On his own terms. \u003cbr\u003eFollowing a child that East Ham made \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003equicksilver astonishment\u003c\/b\u003e of a book, \u003cb\u003edeft and devastating\u003c\/b\u003e and completely original. \u003cb\u003eJust read it\u003c\/b\u003e -- Kiran Millwood Hargrave\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGunaratne offers us the study of a young man navigating many identities while searching for security and selfhood.\u003ci\u003e Mister, Miste\u003c\/i\u003er is a modern testimony of the \"British \/ other\" subject as well as \u003cb\u003ean invitation for us, readers, lovers of stories to be defined on our own terms\u003c\/b\u003e. This is \u003cb\u003ea vital novel of newness and nowness\u003c\/b\u003e that testifies to the power of fiction that seeks truth\u003cbr\u003e--\u003c\/p\u003e -- Raymond Antrobus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rollercoaster \u003c\/b\u003ecoming of age picaresque... \u003cb\u003eglories in the infinite bounty of storytelling\u003c\/b\u003e * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eGuy Gunaratne's writing comes with big energy and empathy. Illuminated with evocative language and vivid storytelling, \u003ci\u003eMister Mister\u003c\/i\u003e salutes belonging in the unbelonging: \u003cb\u003ean essential read for these times\u003c\/b\u003e -- Salena Godden\u003cbr\u003eI wish I could declare a national reading day in Britain where adults read the same book together, beginning with \u003ci\u003eMister, Mister\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eGunaratne fits a whole nation inside one complex character and in doing so shows us our bones and our souls. Brimming with compassion and Dickensian in its breadth, \u003c\/b\u003ethis \u003cb\u003eincredibly important b\u003c\/b\u003eook eviscerates othering and \u003cb\u003einsists that Britain claim a new identity\u003c\/b\u003e -- Leone Ross\u003cbr\u003eIt's the \u003cb\u003eeffervescence and emotional depth \u003c\/b\u003eof their writing that make \u003ci\u003eMister, Mister \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ea knockout\u003c\/b\u003e * Big Issue *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book tears through you\u003c\/b\u003e. A \u003cb\u003esearing\u003c\/b\u003e, shocking odyssey through faith, fury, and the boiling despair at the heart of our age -- Musa Okwonga\u003cbr\u003eGunaratne is a writer with a rare ability to inhabit savants, outsiders, rebels and others who exist at the so-called margins of mainstream society, and who they write slapbang into the centre. Moving between women's houses and detention centres, global and UK politics, tenderness and devastation,  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMister, Mister is \u003c\/i\u003ewh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eere it's at\u003c\/b\u003e -- Isabel Waidner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSuch a sharp and clever book \u003c\/b\u003ethat absolutely refuses easy interpretation.  It's about language and faith and extremism and ideas of home and identity and freedom. But also about the opposite of all that - an undoing of identity.  \u003cb\u003eOne of those really refreshing books that truly doesn't feel like anything I've read before\u003c\/b\u003e, and one I'm still thinking about -- Anna James\u003cbr\u003eThis \u003cb\u003edevastating \u003c\/b\u003enew novel from Guy Gunaratne confirms them as \u003cb\u003ea writer at the top of their game\u003c\/b\u003e. They balance an experimental structure with \u003cb\u003ean indelible voice\u003c\/b\u003e, exploring global, social politics and resolve with ease. Their use of language, precision, thoughtfulness and humanity, make this is \u003cb\u003ethe book you will all be reading in 2023\u003c\/b\u003e -- Nikesh Shukla\u003cbr\u003eIncisive... an engrossing romp through recent UK history, underpinned by the question: what does it mean to be British? * Esquire *\u003cbr\u003eThrillingly unstable, as verbally roiling as a pirate radio broadcast, animated by a charismatic antihero prone to \"rampant wilding bents\". At the same time, what makes it so important is how, like Preti Taneja's Aftermath or the poetry of Bhanu Kapil, it's also drawn to silence and hermeticism: to brown opacity * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliantly evocative of the effects of recent horrors many people are all-too keen to forget, Gunaratne's latest affirms that they are a writer with a unique voice and a magnificent ear for dialogue * Booklist *\u003cbr\u003eVivid. Gunaratne is a skilful storyteller who imaginatively confronts the complexity of identity and unbelonging in Britain * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003eprovocative powder-keg \u003c\/b\u003eof a novel.  The first-person narrator is \u003cb\u003eso compelling\u003c\/b\u003e * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eMost contemporary British novels limit themselves to moving the furniture round a bit, or even just describing the furniture. Mister, Mister tears down the whole house and, from the wreckage, builds a hall of mirrors. \u003cb\u003eFurious, incredibly bold, beautiful, ugly, heart-breaking and most of all alive\u003c\/b\u003e, this is a book which lays waste to your assumptions - whatever they are -- Will Ashon","brand":"Headline Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47851742626135,"sku":"9781472250230","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472250230.jpg?v=1710643496","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mister-mister-9781472250230","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}