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Original Title:	Intimacy
ISBN:	349923193X (ISBN13: 9783499231933)
Edition Language:	German

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Hanif Kureishi's fourth novel made many reviewers uneasy on its first appearance in the U.K., because it cuts so painfully near to the bone. If a novelist's first duty is to tell the truth, then the author has done his duty with unflinching courage. Intimacy gives us the thoughts and memories of a middle-aged writer on the night before he walks out on his wife and two young sons for of a younger woman. A very modern man, without political convictions or religious beliefs, he vaguely hopes to find fulfillment in sexual love. No one is spared Kureishi's cold, penetrating gaze or lacerating pen. "She thinks she's feminist, but she's just bad-tempered," the unnamed narrator says of his abandoned wife. A male friend advises him, "Marriage is a battle, a terrible journey, a season in hell, and a reason for living."

At the heart of Intimacy is this terrible paradox: "You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them." Male readers will wince with recognition at the narrator's hatred of entrapment and domesticity, and his implacable urge towards freedom, escape, even loneliness. Female readers may find it a truly horrific revelation. Kureishi is only telling it like it is, in staccato sentences of pinpoint accuracy. By far the author's best yet: a brilliant, devastating work. --Christopher Hart, Amazon.co.uk

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Title	:	Intimacy
Author	:	Hanif Kureishi
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 252 pages
Published	:	2001 by Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary

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Upon reading this, I felt that it was quite obvious that the author wrote this book with intimate knowledge of failed relationships and break-ups. The small details really do make this story. The disagreements of how to make tea, for example which leads both the characters feeling like they want to kill each other. The wife's badgering, the narrator's air of weariness, the disconnectedness of it all ... like they're only JUST missing the target, that if they tried that little bit harder, maybe

A very personal and intimate oration by a man who is about to walk out of his home and life (leaving his wife and two small children). It is well written, eloquent and thought provoking and I felt I could look at it objectively despite having no particular liking for the narrator who is self indulgent and pitiful to an extent, however in essence he is not able to live the life he has carved out for himself - some other reviewers seem to find this unbearable to read and perhaps morally wrong (but

I did not find anything to like in the central character, Jay. He reminded me of all the annoying characters in Love In A Blue Time (so the protagonists of all the stories except My Son The Fanatic). He is selfish, self-pitying, entitled, self-indulgent and needy. I think we are supposed to admire his honesty, but even that is whiny. I've read too many characters like Jay in books written by men in the 90s (Martin Amis for example). At least Brett Easton Ellis took his to the logical, if also

Such agreat writing style and very insightful...the story itself is very believable and describes the ending of a long relationship and the thoughts one has in the process.

i absolutely love this book! i get why everyone is frustrated with Jay as a character, he does have a hard to like personality. i struggled trying to understand things from his perspective at times, but realising that he is a human after all i could somewhat understand the reason behind some of the decisions he made even if i didn't share his opinions. on another note i loved the writing style and the brutally honest ways Kureishi chose to convey his messages and criticize the institution of

Self-indulgent, self-pitying navel gazing, but brutally honest and unsettling in its exploration of a life-changing decision and all the pedestrian humanness behind it. The assertion in the synopsis that men will cringe in recognition and women will be horrified is laughable. Men would love to think that the actions and emotions experienced by the protagonist belong to them alone, while we, the nagging domestic harridens, cling to our men and think only of our precious family unit. That

Very interesting because of it's cut throat style of honesty, although it was a little uncomfortable to read at times, I admire Kureishi for the brutal honesty and vitality he gives to the characters.