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The Go-Between - A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds (Paperback, Main)
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The Go-Between - A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds (Paperback, Main)
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'Full of love, wisdom and yearning' Kit de Waal A 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 migrant
Muslim 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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