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Ours are the Streets
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
From Yorkshire to Afghanistan, Ours are the Streets is a poignant and powerful story of political radicalization by Sunjeev Sahota, author of Man Booker Prize shortlisted The Year of the Runaways.
When Imtiaz Raina leaves England for the first time, to bury his father on his family’s land near Lahore, he exchanges his uncertain life in Sheffield for a road that...
Details
320 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Genuine, poignant . . . A moral work of real intelligence and powerJohn Burnside, The Times
What Sahota creates is not an exploration of the psyche of a suicide bomber, but an exploration of a manThe Yorkshire Post
Startling. This book successfully humanizes one of the great demons of contemporary society, and for that, Sunjeev Sahota should be given a high five off the Queen or somethingDazed and Confused
Excruciatingly well-writtenThe Guardian