This book is a perfect combination of thought-provoking essays and short fictions that explore the complex, yet intertwined relationship between love and hate. The readers will find themselves navigating through the realms of betrayal, loyalty, imagination, and repression, making the book a relatable and eye-opening read for anyone interested in exploring the multifaceted emotions that drive human relationships. The bravura piece of personal reportage about the conman who steals Kureishi's life savings highlights the author's candid writing style, making the book an authentic, heart-warming, and at times, a scathing reminder that love and hate have an inevitable and complicated connection.

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An inventive, thought-provoking and characteristically bold collection of short fiction and essays from Hanif Kureishi, centered around the vexed relationship between love and hate.In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi's acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka's relationship with his father, readers will find Kureishi also exploring the topics that he continues to make new, and make his own: growing up and growing old; betrayal and loyalty; imagination and repression; marriage and fatherhood.The collection ends with a bravura piece of very personal reportage about the conman who stole Kureishi's life savings - a man who provoked both admiration and disgust, obsession and revulsion, love and hate.

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