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Andalibian, Rahimeh
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Fiction
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2015
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Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services)
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English
β 399 KB
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The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton
β Scribed by Sanghera, Sathnam
- Book ID
- 109248386
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780670923090
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The Boy With the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton is a hilarious and heart-rending tale of what it is like to grow up different in modern Britain.
"It's 1979, I'm three years old, and like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair, a ritual for which I have to sit down on the second-hand, floral-patterned settee, and lean forward, like I'm presenting myself for execution."
For Sathnam Sanghera, growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. On the one hand, these were the heady days of George Michael mix-tapes, Dallas on TV and, if he was lucky, the occasional Bounty Bar. On the other, there was his wardrobe of tartan smocks, his 30p-an-hour job at the local sewing factory and the ongoing challenge of how to tie the perfect top-knot.
And then there was his family, whose strange and often difficult behaviour he took for granted until, at the...
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