EAN: 9781472250247

MISTER MISTER - GUY GUNARATNE KARTONIERT (TB)

Raised by 'Many Mothers' and an eccentric uncle in a crumbling East Ham home  even Yahya Bas's
birth is shrouded in myths which his absent father and distant birth mother are not on hand to
dispel. His is an unconventional start in life  where his view of the world is shaped perhaps
more by the TV (his many mothers' endless soaps and his uncle's endless new bulletins) as by a
primary school where it is all he can do to escape daily beatings. When  as a teenager  he is
sent to Islamic school  Yahya discovers an unexpected gift as a poet  and under his online
alter ego as Al-Bayn  he becomes the most widely read poet in the country. But the consequences
of his fame are ugly  and his need to learn what became of his father has become so pressing
that he flees the UK to travel to Syria under an assumed name. What he counters there is very
far from what he expected to find  and his confession  when he finds himself interned back in
the UK  is one that will shake his interrogator to the core: it's the story of how Britain made
Yahya in its own image  and above all  it's the story of a young man who insists on telling his
story in his own defiant  incendiary words.

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