EAN: 9781786893529

THE GO-BETWEEN - OSMAN YOUSEFZADA GEBUNDEN

'Full of love  wisdom and yearning' Kit de WaalA 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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