Londonstani Hardcover | Pages: 342 pages

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Original Title:	Londonstani
ISBN:	1594200971 (ISBN13: 9781594200977)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United Kingdom
Literary Awards:	Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης ΕΚΕΜΕΛ Nominee for Αγγλόφωνη Λογοτεχνία (2008)

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Jas is in trouble. Because of who he is-an eighteen-year-old Asian living in London. Because of the gang he hangs out with. And because of the woman he fancies, Samira, who Jas shouldn't have taken a shining to because she is, as his pals point out, not one of his own. He's in trouble because his education, never mind his career, is going nowhere. And he's fallen into the schemes, games and prejudices of his friends on the streets of the big western city in which he lives. But Jas's main trouble is Jas himself, and he doesn't even know the trouble he's in, and try as hard as he does, he's failing to make sense of what it is to be young, male and what you might say is Indostani in a city that professes to be a melting pot but is a city of racial and religious exclusion zones. Without his parents' aspirations to assimilate, without the gifts of his more academically accomplished contemporaries, Jas is a young man without a survival plan to get by in the big city. He's out of touch, an anachronism posing as young man who's up-to-date, living free-style, making things up as he goes along in suburbs of West London. Gautam Malkani's extraordinary comic novel portrays the lives of young Muslim, Sikh, and Hindu men in the ethnically charged enclave of one of the biggest western cities, London. A world usually-but wrongly-portrayed as the breeding ground for Islamic militants is, in actuality, a world of money (sometimes), flash cars (usually), cell phones (all the time), rap music and MTV, as well as rivalries and feuds, and the small-time crooks who exploit them. In Malkani's hilarious depiction of multiculturalism, race is no more than a proxy for masculinity, or lack of masculinity, among young men struggling to get by in a remorseless city. Just as Martin Amis and Irving Welsh captured the mood and the ethos of the eighties and nighties, twenty-nine-year-old Gautam Malkani brilliantly evokes the life of immigrants who are not immigrants in Londonstani, bringing an entirely fresh perspective to contemporary fiction as he does so.

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Title	:	Londonstani
Author	:	Gautam Malkani
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 342 pages
Published	:	June 22nd 2006 by Penguin Press (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Contemporary. Novels. Fiction. Literature

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the ending was awful! what was could have been a great exploration of working class, sikh gangsta masculinities ended in an annoying plot twist that i found incredibly distracting. also got pretty exhausted 1/2 way through with all the posturing...

Londonstani is is another in a long line of books about one of literatures favourite topics; teenage angst and the problems of fitting in, making friends and finding your place in a changing society. Oh and of course theres a boy meets girl boy loses girl line running through as well. Its just this ones a bit different because its set in the multi-cultural environs of Hounslow an area of suburban London that's highly dependent on Heathrow airport and rather more middle-class than the

I thought this was complete rubbish. Five minutes into the book I already hated the arrogant bunch of thugs that are supposed to be our beloved heroes. If I don't like or connect to the characters I rarely get far in the book and this was one of those cases. Personally I was hoping that some other thugs would come up and beat the living daylights out of them and put some fun in the book!Following what the hell they were talking about was a challenge in itself and when you have to keep re-reading

Jas is eighteen, retaking his A-levels at the local college and hanging out as a member of Hardjit's crew, throwing off his nerdy ways to be a part of the desi (Indian, Pakistani) scene in London's desi suburb of Hounslow. Hardjit, Ravi, Amit and Jas have a racket going: they take in mobile phones and unblock them. Sometimes it's a service for family or friends who swap their phones with each other, but mostly it's so stolen mobiles can be resold.A close call with the police after Hardjit, a

Oh my. Testosterone overload, but that's exactly what the author wanted us to witness, innit? I found this book quite effective on the topic of pretense, because this is not -as I first thought- about the violence and rage of an economically marginalized youth. This is not La Haine. These are middle-class kids emulating a macho attitude that seems to be de rigueur these days, and not just in the UK. Toughness and desiness are cool, at least on the street, which is why I think the final twist

Just finished it, so this may be too much of a gut reaction. We'll see if my thoughts change once I've sat with it for a while. This book frustrated me. It took me a while to wade through the style of writing and start focusing on the story itself. The written text probably added to the authenticity of the experience, but it was a bit much at times. I also had some very visceral reactions to the graphic hard-core male language that seemed a bit gratuitous at times, but again, maybe added some

Ok so the ending was a bit tacked on but it made me think back alot to his relationship with his parents and how they related to him. I loved the slang - have a ton of British cousins so it was like hanging with the family. He does go a bit too heavy on sexualizing every woman he saw but it worked well with the intense aggression and frustration and mixed up with the pace of the language it was very Clockwork Orangish. I liked how the new rudeboy persona Jas was trying to grow into would fade