Shattered, out in 2024, will expand on the material the Buddha of Suburbia author has been sharing on social media from his hospital bed since a fall in Rome last year
, published via Substack, and his tweets have shared insights on everything from his health to his recreational drug use. A recent post told of a visit from Kureishi’s schoolfriend David, whom the author revealed he had fancied in his youth. David had pushed the writer around the hospital’s small garden and the pair had enjoyed discussing “anything that came into [their] minds”.
“I need plenty of company at the present time. Being here has become more difficult as I feel more isolated from the general world, and more desperate to escape,” Kureishi said.All of the author’s previous full-length works have been published in the UK by Faber. Shattered, however, will be published by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
“Like everyone who knows Hanif, I was shocked by the news of his accident and the awful situation in which he suddenly found himself,” said Hamish Hamilton’s publishing director Simon Prosser. “And like thousands of others I was electrified by the words he began sending out into the world in January as Twitter threads, detailing his thoughts, feelings and memories, as they came to him, with extraordinary clarity, force and composure.
“Over the coming months I will be working with Hanif as he shapes these hospital dispatches into a book, and I more than hope – I believe – that the ultimate arc of this book will be one of recuperation,” he added. “Simon and I have known each other for many years, and it is a pleasure to be working together at last on a book,” Kureishi said.
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