num_pages: 384
description: Jamal is middle-aged though reluctant to admit it. He has an ex-wife a son he adores a thriving career as a psychoanalyst and vast reserves of unsatisfied desire. Secrets are my currency he says. I deal in them for a living. And he has some of his own. He is haunted by Ajita his first love whom he hasn't seen in decades and by an act of violence he has never confessed. With great empathy and agility Kureishi has created an array of unforgettable characters -- a hilarious and eccentric theater director a covey of charming and defiant outcasts and an ebullient sister who thrives on the fringe. All wrestle with their own limits as human beings; all are plagued by the past until they find it within themselves to forgive. Comic wise and unfailingly tender Something to Tell You is Kureishi's best work to date brilliant and exhilarating.
language: English
title: Something to Tell You
publisher: Scribner