My ear at his heart - Hanif Kureishi

"Reading my father" is the explaining subtitle. Kureishi is a well known writer, a professional we could say. His father was an employee at the Pakistan embassy in London... and a writer too, just that he did'nt see any of his novels published. This book is a literary essay about the relationship between them and in extension about all the ample hindu-pakistani family Hanif comes from. This is a kind of book I have come increasingly interested in. Those books where a writer tells us about his ideas, wishes, emotions or experiences without using the (not always necessary) tool named "novel". I have felt after the reading that a trace of sadness lingered in the air.