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“Gabriel’s Gift” Hanif Kureishi (2001) Review | Rock and London

Gabriel's Gift
Gabriel's Gift
Hanif Kureishi, 2001
196 pages
Read in 2020.06
check synopsis and details on amazon.com

🔽 Intro and review summary 🔽

✔ Father and son
✔ Rock n roll in London


★★★☆☆ A little book about boyhood, growing up, London and rock'n'roll.


🔽 Book review and notes 🔽

A little book about boyhood, growing up, London and rock'n'roll.

I wanted the brilliantness of My Beautiful Laundrette, but here there's only the ode to pop culture and music.

It's a fairytale, of a modern and urban, specifically London, family life seen from a boy's perspective whose parents were living rocknroll lives knowing rocknroll people back then.
Which, in itself perfectly likeable if you are into it, just that I'm not familiar with that vibe.

🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽

●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●
Gabriel's Gift
Gabriel's Gift


●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Gabriel's Gift

●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
Il dono di Gabriel (italiano)