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Anita and Me

By Meera Syal
Series: Modern Plays
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Anita and Me follows Meena, a young girl in the only Punjabi family in a 1970s Black Country mining village. As Meena navigates childhood scrapes and friendships, the arrival of the charismatic Anita sparks her desire to belong. The story captures Meena's struggle between two cultures against a backdrop of flares, power cuts, glam rock, and social change, painting a comic and compassionate portrait of village life.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book is ideal for readers interested in coming-of-age tales, cultural identity, and 1970s British village life, as well as fans of comic and poignant storytelling.

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This poignant coming-of-age tale follows Meena, a young girl growing up in the only Punjabi family in a 1970s Black Country mining village. Meena spends her days happily getting into scrapes with the other local children until one day the impossibly cool Anita enters her life.

Suddenly, Meena knows exactly who she wants to be, but is Anita all that she seems? Soon Meena’s world is turned upside down as she is caught between two very different cultures.

Anita and Me paints a comic, poignant, compassionate, and colourful portrait of village life in the era of flares, power cuts, glam rock, decimalisation, and Ted Heath. It has been adapted for the stage by the multi-award-winning Tanika Gupta.

Series: Modern Plays

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Roxana Silbert, Artistic Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre, praises the novel as a brilliant, engaging, and funny coming-of-age story exploring cultural identity within a tight-knit community, anticipating its stage adaptation with enthusiasm.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350262751

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 September 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Methuen Drama

Contributors:

  • Adapted by Tanika Gupta

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 133g

Pages: 144

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Arts & Culture Meera Syal Non-Fiction Series: Modern Plays

About the Author

Tanika Gupta has written for theatre, radio, film and television. Aside from the works published by Oberon, her stage plays include Voices On The Wind (NT Studio), Skeleton (Soho Theatre), On The Couch With Enoch (Red Room - BAC) and The Waiting Room (NT) which won the John Whiting Award. She has also translated Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan for the National Theatre Education Touring and written plays for Theatre Royal Stratford East's Young Actor's Company Brood and Squid. Tanika is an Honorary Fellow at Rose Bruford College and was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2008 for Services to Drama.

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