Love in a Blue Time

Synopsis of Love in a Blue Time

«Love in a Blue Time» is Hanif Kureishi's collection of short stories, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (224 pages, in English).

These stories, set in mid-1990s London after the Thatcher era, follow characters trying to sustain relationships and projects in a city marked by economic crisis, social disintegration and mass culture. Kureishi explores desire, ethnic and sexual identity, infidelity and the disillusionment of a generation.

This is Hanif Kureishi's first collection of short stories, containing ten tales. The work, originally published in 1997, was written over a decade.

For readers of contemporary British fiction and followers of Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album.