Entries for June 2007
your comments
thanks to everyone who has been emailing me to tell me their thoughts on the book. its been really fascinating hearing different viewpoints- it also really great to know its made a connection in different ways with people. i have had emails from Asian readers saying things like they have …
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thoughts on glastonbury
I arrived back from Glastonbury this morning having arrived at the site on Wednesday afternoon. This was my fifth festival and in that time I have only witnessed one dry Glastonbury which was my very first one. That one, in 2002, was an utterly joyful, thrilling experience watching REM and …
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Time magazine review
Born to Run away
by Pico Iyer
Mohammed Manzoor had to work for 11 years before he could bring his wife and four children over from Pakistan to join him. He lived in a house with 31 other Pakistanis, sleeping in shifts. When his family was finally able to make …
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the times review
by Ian Finlayson
Manzoor, a sharp operator in a generation hip to the nuances of multicultural multimedia, gives us a modern life - his own, mediated by television, music and awareness of his ethnicity as a Pakistani Muslim in Britain. His journey since the early 1970s from Lahore via Luton …
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the Guardian’s review
by Diamond Duggal
There is nothing unfamiliar about the lives of second-generation British immigrants. The tension between traditional and liberal values and the disconnection between first- and second-generation immigrants has been well documented; most notably in Hanif Kureishi’s books The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album, as well as …
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independent review
Reviewed by Arifa Akbar
In this memoir, Sarfraz Manzoor traces his journey from Lahore, where he was born, to Bury Park in Luton, where his family emigrated when he was three, to his present existence as a successful writer and broadcaster in London. Manzoor’s autobiography of a first-generation British Pakistani …
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