KEY POINTS:
SOMETHING TO TELL YOU
By Hanif Kureishi
Faber, $35
Kureishi has made his name with unconventional exploration of race, class, sexuality and cultural identity in London.
His latest incarnation, Jamal Khan, is a successful London psychoanalyst who, apart from fearing ageing, death and impotence, is haunted by the murder of his first love's brutal father. Jamal is also dealing with Islamic revolutionary fervour, Blairite hypocrisy and a celebrity-obsessed media.
It is a sprawling novel with an eccentric cast who try to enliven their angst-ridden lives with unbridled hedonism. The book intelligently chronicles the life, times and preoccupations of a generation "no longer young, and not yet old".
