The Black Album

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 230. Black cloth boards, lettered in cream white to spine.

Light toning to block edges, else Fine.

A "state of Britain" narrative and an exhilarating coming-of-age tale featuring Shahid, torn between his conservative Muslim upbringing and his fondness for sex, drugs, and rock n roll in liberal London. Set in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall came down and the fatwah was imposed on Salman Rushdie, The Black Album is the author's second novel following The Buddha of Suburbia (1990). "One of the best comic novels of growing up, and one of the sharpest satires on race relations in this country, that I've ever read". –The Independent on Sunday