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From the author of The Buddha of Suburbia

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Yazan: Hanif Kureishi
Seslendiren: Art Malik
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From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed.

Imagine your life changing in a second: one minute you are watching the football with a beer, the next you are on the floor in a pool of blood, deprived of the use of your arms and legs. This fall renders you paralysed, robbed of your independence, entirely reliant on others for everything.

This happened to writer Hanif Kureishi on Boxing Day 2022. His account of what happened and its aftermath is a unique, riveting and frequently riotous account of a year-long odyssey home through five hospitals. From despair to hope, rage to courage, it might be the most truthful, and the funniest, medical disaster story ever written.

‘I’ve never felt tempted to use the word “inspirational” about a book, and promise I never will again, but it’s the only word I can think of to describe Shattered’ Lynn Barber, The Spectator

‘Incredible. A remarkable tale of resilience – and surprisingly funny’ iNews

‘Heartbreaking. [A] masterpiece of British stoicism. Intimate, brave and uplifting’ Independent

‘Wildly inspiring. His singular voice, his bawdy humour, his efforts to create meaning, all so characteristic and moving’ Guardian

© Hanif Kureishi 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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Extraordinary, unique and unputdownable . . . an exceptional volume as original as Jean-Dominique Bauby’s stroke classic The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [and] as profound and affected as Salman Rushdie’s Knife . . . This fall provoked a rare, and inspiring, defiance . . . Shattered, with its unique authorship, has become a life-saver. For the reader, this compounds the intensity of its witness (Robert McCrum)
A thoroughly compelling, and deeply harrowing, account of Kureishi’s life . . . few could write about it with the piercing candour and clarity that Kureishi has done. There is frustration, anger, sometimes despair, but not a trace of self-pity (Mick Brown)
Raw and earnest . . . Kureishi’s fans will find Shattered wildly inspiring; his singular voice, his bawdy humour, his efforts to create meaning, all so characteristic and moving . . . I can’t wait to read everything he has to write (Dina Nayeri)
An enthralling report on how a person can be forced to reckon with sudden, shocking change . . . Shattered is its own lifeline, and a neat exemplar of what we mean when we describe a book as ‘necessary’: its value for readers is at one with its urgency of expression to the human being drowning in the experience it attempts to redeem . . . It’s impossible not to read Shattered in a spirit of generosity and communion
Kureishi, a taboo-buster since his days as a punk-era playwright, has always hunted for the freedom, even joy, hiding on the other side of shame. He still does . . . Shattered trumpets the strength of his droll and trenchant voice above the ‘random evil stuff’ that ‘can happen to you at any time’ . . . His dispatches from the planet of paralysis draw on the good habits of a writing lifetime — clarity, comedy, courage, unshockable attentiveness — to depict a self, and a family, “smashed, remade and altered” . . . Only Kureishi could have rebuilt these pieces of a fractured life so well
[Shattered is] an authentic depiction of Kureishi’s whirring mind, particularly in the constant alternation of hope and despair . . . At one point, he sternly declares that writing is “not therapy for the writer but entertainment for the reader”. Yet, while the entertainment here is of a complicated kind, Shattered shows, triumphantly, that it’s possible to combine the two (James Walton)
Shattered is a remarkable tale of resilience - and surprisingly funny . . . Kureishi has always been notable for his scabrous humour and its use here shoves Shattered away from tragedy . . . No matter how ruinous Kureishi's own transformation has been, his resilience and his determination to continue are inspiring. Meanwhile, Shattered offers ample proof of his continuing literary prowess, paralysed or not. "I am determined to keep writing," he says. "It has never mattered to me more."
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I have had these thoughts myself having had a similar situation, it was really good to hear someone actually vocalise these! Keep writing 🙂

Written true thoughts

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This is a startlingly moving and honest account of the minutiae and humanity of a dreadful accident. A courageous Kureishi takes us agonisingly through the vicissitudes of being tetraplegic. He won’t feel he’s courageous I suspect, I think he’d say he’s dealing with realities but I’d contend that he does that with such revelatory ferocity as to constitute a rare and very edifying courage, I wish this man all the arse scratching he’d wish for himself, loved it!

Wow!!

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Devastating chain of events which you almost can’t believe are true because they are so sad and tragic for everyone involved, Events remembered and retold with wonderful strength and intelligence which makes you question and realise the value of life. Incredible read. Beautiful voice too.

Wonderful, tragic and inspiring

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view from a chair was interesting, funny (intentionally or not) & well read.
keep producing whichever way you can Hanif

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Thank you Hanif for sharing your story. You did indeed entertain and enlighten this reader x

Inspirational

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