Before his untimely death at the age of 47, Dinesh Allirajah was
one of the most versatile and accomplished writers working in the
North of England. Whether as a performance poet, literary critic,
wry social commentator or masterfully understated short story
writer, his work was always international in scope, but local and
personal in touch. Witty, irreverent, and intricately observed, his
writing was informed by everything from raregroove jazz to
experimental theatre, crime noir to stand-up comedy. Yet it always
felt, and continues to feel, bespoke to us as readers. The short
stories, in particular, allow us to eavesdrop on the most intimate,
unattended moments in their characters' lives. Here, we get to know
outsiders - migrant workers, beleaguered mothers, old and unwanted
regulars in a pub that's facing a refurb - people being slowly
ushered into the background, or kept at a distance. Yet it is on
these peripheries - far from where everyone else is looking - that
Dinesh finds his stories, here that identities are reconstructed
and renegotiated, here that we learn the most about ourselves.
Spanning over twenty years' work, this definitive volume presents a
through-line of Dinesh's compassion, activism, and literary
perspicacity; a clarion call to find essential beauty - in art,
music, sport, life - and to pass it on.
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