Description
| Product ID: | 9781408889244 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Life and Times of a Very British Man |
| Authors: | Author: Kamal Ahmed |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: literary, Social discrimination and social justice, Economics, Social discrimination & inequality, Economics |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A revealing, honest and often comic coming-of-age story about growing up in 1970s Britain on the boundaries of race'Full of charm' GUARDIAN'An account of what being British means' i'Captures a country in transition ... You can't fail to be moved' THE TIMESKamal Ahmed's childhood was very ‘British’ in every way – except for the fact that he was brown. Half English, half Sudanese, he was raised at a time when being mixed-race meant being told to go home, even when you were born just down the road. This is his account of an upbringing of cricket and bucket-and-spade holidays, Angel Delight and the BBC - British to the core, yet always feeling foreign in the only home he had ever known. 'Ahmed grew up as a mixed-race kid in west London in the seventies, and his book charts the progress (sometimes slow and now without a few setbacks along the way) that our country has made on race issues since then. Brilliant' Rohan Silva, Evening Standard A revealing, honest and often comic coming-of-age story about growing up in 1970s Britain on the boundaries of race''Full of charm'' GUARDIAN''An account of what being British means'' i''Captures a country in transition ... You can''t fail to be moved'' THE TIMESKamal Ahmed''s childhood was very ‘British’ in every way – except for the fact that he was brown. Half English, half Sudanese, he was raised at a time when being mixed-race meant being told to go home, even when you were born just down the road.This is his account of an upbringing of cricket and bucket-and-spade holidays, Angel Delight and the BBC - British to the core, yet always feeling foreign in the only home he had ever known. ''Ahmed grew up as a mixed-race kid in west London in the seventies, and his book charts the progress (sometimes slow and now without a few setbacks along the way) that our country has made on race issues since then. Brilliant'' Rohan Silva, Evening Standard |
| Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-05-02 |