The Go-Between
From the renowned artist, an enlightening memoir of living between worlds and learning how to find one's own 'Full of love, wisdom and yearning' Kit de WaalA coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in…
Specifikacia The Go-Between
From the renowned artist, an enlightening memoir of living between worlds and learning how to find one's own 'Full of love, wisdom and yearning' Kit de WaalA coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the tracks.The adult world is seen through Osman's eyes as a child: his own devout migrant Muslim patriarchal community, with its divide between the world of men and women, living cheek-by-jowl with parallel migrant communities.Alternative masculinities compete with strict gender roles, and female erasure and honour-based violence are committed, even as empowering female friendships prevail. The stories Osman tells, some fantastical and humorous, others melancholy and even harrowing, take us from the