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(0)Hanif Kureishi
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Language
English
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Description
Unwilling to admit that he has entered middle age, successful psychoanalyst and divorced father Jamal interacts with a string of outcast friends while struggling with memories about his first love, from whom he was separated by an unconfessed act of violence.
2) Venus
Author
Language
English
Description
With VENUS, Hanif Kureishi turns his piercing gaze onto the pains of old age. Maurice (Peter O'Toole) and Ian (Leslie Phillips) are veteran stage actors whose slow, inevitable decline is disrupted by the arrival in their lives of Ian's niece Jessie (Jodie Whittaker). While Jessie's housekeeping skills make for a bone of contention with Ian, Maurice finds himself attracted to her. Kureishi has crafted a disturbing, wry and profoundly moving swansong...
3) Le Week-End
Author
Language
English
Description
In Le Weekend, a couple-married for 30 years-spend their wedding anniversary in Paris. However, the romantic city soon becomes a backdrop to their increasingly bitter disputes about the state of their marriage-and their lives.
But, as they gradually become part of the rhythm of the city-its cafes and monuments-the tension that has burdened them fades as they re-discover the playfulness and anarchy of their youth.
Their melancholy dissolves in a...
4) Le Week-End
Author
Language
English
Description
Nick and Meg, a long-married British couple revisiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon attempt to rekindle their relationship.
5) Venus
Author
Language
English
Description
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes absolutely taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When he tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their give-and-take surprises both Maurice and Jessie as they discover what they don't know about themselves.
6) The mother
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A newly widowed woman moves to London to be near her family. She soon feels like she is just an invisible old lady until a young man comes into her life. She finds things in herself that she thought were lost forever, but at what cost?
