{"title":"Carlo Kureishi","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarlo Kureishi's works offer intimate explorations of identity, belonging, and personal history. Through vivid narrative and thoughtful reflection, readers are invited into deeply human stories that resonate with emotional honesty and cultural insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the \u003cem\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e tradition, Kureishi's writing captures the complexity of lived experience with clarity and warmth, making each book a compelling journey of self-discovery and connection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"are-you-with-me-now-by-hanif-kureishi-9780241831595","title":"Are You with Me Now?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe follow-up to Hanif Kureishi's extraordinary hospital memoir, \u003cem\u003eShattered\u003c\/em\u003e, this is the story of what came next—a year of living at home in London after paralysis, told through scenes of carers, physio, insomnia, sex, money, football, film sets, festivals, and family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe song \u003cem\u003eAre You with Me Now?\u003c\/em\u003e was a regular soundtrack to the drives Hanif and partner Isabella would take from Rome to her mother's house on the Amalfi Coast, both of them singing along as they skirted the Bay of Naples, in the time before the accident which paralysed him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book takes its title from that music—and it is a question that has now become more urgent and more complex. Beginning with this memory of the past and ending with his marriage to Isabella and his first faltering steps, Hanif Kureishi, with son Carlo, charts how a writer, a couple, and a family adapt to disability—through arguments and jokes, memories of lovers and friends, and a new way of working word by word at the kitchen table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAre You With Me Now?\u003c\/em\u003e is a fiercely funny, unflinching account of survival—and of creativity, desire, and companionship persisting when the body, and conventional life, fall apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233107980524,"sku":"9780241831595","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780241831595-are-you-with-me-now-1.jpg?v=1787725750"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/carlo-kureishi.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}