Anita and Me
Registered by Mytilus of Plymouth, Devon United Kingdom on 2/18/2005
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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From the reviews of Anita and Me
'A marvellous crash course in Asian/Brummie culture. Funny, moving and packed full of wonderful surprises.' Esther Freud
'God knows there have been enough memoirs of growing up in the Sixties, but Syal's account has a welcome freshness of perspective. She smartly catches the strangeness and violence of childhood, and skilfully evokes an almost vanished kind of rural working-class life.' GQ
'Anita and Me is full of pleasure. Syal is as skilful at rendering the saucy, ballsy backchat of the Tollington women as she is at describing Meena's "uncles and aunties", her parents' Indian friends. The book is expertly structured and engagingly written, illuminated throughout by Meena's ironical reverance and robustness of spirit. I can give it no higher recommendation.' Laura Tennant, Guardian
'The crucial ingredient is Meena's relationship with Anita Rutter, local lewd flower - skinny of hip, vicious by nature and owner of a dog called Nigger. Best-friend-best-enemy stories have been done before but this is a beautifully specific portrait.' Observer
'On one level, Anita and Me is a simple story of the path from innocence to experience. On another, it contains the elements of tragedy - death, love, jealousy, rivalry, betrayal - and it can be read as a modern day fable. Meera Syal is a fine comic writer and she mines a rich vein of Indian-English life.' TLS
'A marvellous crash course in Asian/Brummie culture. Funny, moving and packed full of wonderful surprises.' Esther Freud
'God knows there have been enough memoirs of growing up in the Sixties, but Syal's account has a welcome freshness of perspective. She smartly catches the strangeness and violence of childhood, and skilfully evokes an almost vanished kind of rural working-class life.' GQ
'Anita and Me is full of pleasure. Syal is as skilful at rendering the saucy, ballsy backchat of the Tollington women as she is at describing Meena's "uncles and aunties", her parents' Indian friends. The book is expertly structured and engagingly written, illuminated throughout by Meena's ironical reverance and robustness of spirit. I can give it no higher recommendation.' Laura Tennant, Guardian
'The crucial ingredient is Meena's relationship with Anita Rutter, local lewd flower - skinny of hip, vicious by nature and owner of a dog called Nigger. Best-friend-best-enemy stories have been done before but this is a beautifully specific portrait.' Observer
'On one level, Anita and Me is a simple story of the path from innocence to experience. On another, it contains the elements of tragedy - death, love, jealousy, rivalry, betrayal - and it can be read as a modern day fable. Meera Syal is a fine comic writer and she mines a rich vein of Indian-English life.' TLS
I missed the TV show of this and I'm looking forward to reading this :-)
Journal Entry 3 by Drusillamac at Blackfriars Pub, Bell St. in Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom on Thursday, October 4, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (10/7/2007 UTC) at Blackfriars Pub, Bell St. in Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom
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This book is part of a mass release at a Cargo Artists' night. Find out more about Cargo Artists and what they stand for here.
This book is part of a mass release at a Cargo Artists' night. Find out more about Cargo Artists and what they stand for here.
