This edition was published in 2000 with the action taking place in
1989. The story is set around a poor London college and its poor
Pakistani or Muslim students and their neighborhood. The hero is Sharif,
a young man of Pakistani parents, the son of an immigrant, caught in a
conflict of identity.
On
one side he is in love with Deedee, his white lecturer, an
independent-minded woman who takes delight in enjoying herself with
drugs and sex. On the other are some Pakistani Muslims led by a
religious fanatic whom he gets involved with. Then there is his older
brother, a drug pusher who has fallen victim to his own goods and is on
the run from the police. Sharif has to decide between religious
fanaticism of his colleagues and associating with Deedee, because she
gives him an ultimatum. He finally decides to dump fanaticism after his
friends rejoiced at the
fatwah imposed on Salman Rushdie and began burning his book.
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