The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds - Hardcover

Yousefzada, Osman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786893525 ISBN 13: 9781786893529

Verlag: Canongate Books, 2022

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'Full of love, wisdom and yearning' Kit de Waal

A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the tracks.

The adult world is seen through Osman's eyes as a child: his own devout Pashtun patriarchal community, with its divide between the world of men and women, living cheek-by-jowl with parallel migrant communities.

Alternative masculinities compete with strict gender roles, and female erasure and honour-based violence are committed, even as empowering female friendships prevail. The stories Osman tells, some fantastical and humorous, others melancholy and even harrowing, take us from the Birmingham of Osman's childhood to the banks of the river Kabul and the river Indus, and, eventually, to the London of his teenage years.

Osman weaves in and out of these worlds, struggling with the dual burdens of racism and community expectations, as he is forced to realise it is no longer possible to exist in the spaces in between.

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<b>Osman Yousefzada</b> was born in Birmingham to migrant parents who are illiterate in English and their mother tongue. He is an interdisciplinary artist and designer who studied at SOAS and Central Saint Martins, and went on to obtain an MPhil at Cambridge University. He has exhibited at international institutions including the Whitechapel Gallery, Dhaka Art Summit, V&#38;A and more. He has been awarded the prestigious BFC New Generation award for three seasons. The Osman Yousefzada clothing line is worn by celebrities including Beyonc&#233;, Lady Gaga, Lupita Nyong&#8217;o, Thandiwe Newton, Gwen Stefani, Emma Watson, Freida Pinto and many more. He edits <i>The Collective</i> and has written for <i>Vogue</i>, <i>The Guardian</i> and <i>The Observer</i>. Osman Yousefzada is based in London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1786893525
• ISBN 13: 9781786893529
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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