Edgware RoadAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 3 March 2022
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A wide-ranging and affecting debut novel about family and identity, from an award-winning historian. 1981. Khalid Quraishi is one of the lucky ones. He works nights in the glitzy West End, and comes home every morning to his beautiful wife and daughter. Hes a world away from Karachi and the family he left behind.But Khalid likes to gamble, and he likes to win. Twenty pounds on the fruit machine, fifty on a sure-thing horse, a thousand on an investment that seems certain to pay out. Now hes been offered a huge opportunity, a chance to get in early with a new bank, and it looks like hell finally have his big win.2003. Alia Quraishi doesnt really remember her dad. After her parents divorce she hardly saw him, and her mum refuses to talk about her charming ex-husband. So, when he died in what the police wrote off as a sad accident, Alia had no reason to believe there was more going on.Now almost twenty years have passed and shes tired of only understanding half of who she is. Her dads death alone and miles from his west London stomping ground doesnt add up with the man she knew. If shes going to find out the truth about her father - and learn about the other half of herself - Alia is going to have to visit his home, a place shes never been, and connect with a family that feel more like strangers.Part family mystery, part immigrant hustle, Edgware Road is a complete tour de force... Khan calls up all the ghosts that prowl between children and their parents, between immigrants and their homelands, between our dreams of wealth and our hunger for love, and exorcises them with prose so lapidary and understanding so vast Khans novel is like unto a blessing Junot Díaz
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