Signed by Malkani on the title page. Unclipped dust jacket is creased to the top of the front and back covers and spine. The front and back inner flaps are lightly creased to the tops and the back inner flap has light rubbing. The page edges have very light age spotting. Internally, a couple of pages are creased to the top corners due to folding but are clean and tight.

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A talented new writer whose portrayal of the serious business of assimilation and young masculinity is disturbing and hilarious Hailed as one of the most surprising British novels in recent years, Gautam Malkani's electrifying debut reveals young South Asians struggling to distinguish themselves from their parents' generation in the vast urban sprawl that is contemporary London. Chronicling the lives of a gang of four young middle-class men-Hardjit, the violent enforcer; Ravi, the follower; Amit, who's struggling to come to terms with his mother's hypocrisy; and Jas, desperate to win the approval of the others despite lusting after Samira, a Muslim girl- Londonstani , funny, disturbing, and written in the exuberant language of its protagonists, is about tribalism, aggressive masculinity, integration, alienation, bling-bling economics, and "complicated family-related shit."

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Bookseller: Books-and-records.com, IOBA (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 3763
Title: Londonstani (Signed)
Author: Gautam Malkani
Format/Binding: Very light creasing to the top and bottom of the spine, and light bumping to the bottom corner of the front board and both corne
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good+
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 000723175X
ISBN 13: 9780007231751
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2006
Bookseller catalogs: Signed Books;

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