Mister, Mister
A Novel
by Guy Gunaratne
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Pub Date Oct 03 2023 | Archive Date Nov 02 2023
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Description
Who is Yahya Bas? Revolutionary poet, notorious jihadist, misbegotten son, self-styled idiot-boy. When the enigmatic Yahya finds himself languishing in a detention center after fleeing the conflict in Syria, he has many questions to face.
What was he doing in the desert? Why did he betray his home country? What led him to write the incendiary verses that launched him into international infamy? Mister, his interrogator, wants answers. So Yahya resolves to tell his own story, in his own words, and on his own terms.
Mister, Mister is what follows: a coming-of-age story of radical self-invention, a quest for a long-lost father, and a discovery of another way to live in the shadow of war. Brash, biting, yet ultimately tender and bracingly imaginative, Mister, Mister follows a child of the tumultuous 90s and the ravaged aughts as he becomes the unwitting voice of a generation.
Who is Yahya Bas? An anti-hero for our modern era, in which we've just begun to survey the wreckage of the West's forever-wars.
Advance Praise
PRAISE FOR
Guy Gunaratne and In Our Mad and Furious City
“Guy Gunaratne has a gift for inhabiting the lives of his characters and has used that gift here.” —The New York Times
“Even as this book turns tragic, it remains utterly alive, even joyous . . . Every page, by dint of sheer linguistic exuberance, carries its own adventure.” —The New Yorker
“A must read . . . Gunaratne’s prose swells to a stylish, ground-level street symphony.” —Time
“[A] blazing polyphonic debut.” —The Guardian
“Gunaratne throws words against the wall and makes us watch them bounce. You feel the heat, reel from the sound, and bump to the unstoppable pulse.” —Marlon James, Booker Prize–winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
“A novel that’s a piece of communal vitality, choral in its urgency, one that squares up to the history of division, makes contemporary disjuncture come alive on the page, doesn’t flinch, and demands change right now.” —Ali Smith, author of Companion Piece
“This is cracking. Original, honest voices and a vivid portrayal of a London rarely seen in literature.” —Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780593701423 |
| PRICE | $28.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 384 |
