{"product_id":"shattered-1","title":"Shattered","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Hanif Kureishi, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Buddha of Suburbia\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e___________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘A few days ago, a bomb went off in my life, but this bomb has also shattered the lives of those around me. My partner, my children, my friends.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Boxing Day 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, in a pool of blood, he was horrified to realise he had lost the use of his limbs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe could no longer walk, write or wash himself. He could do nothing without the help of others, and required constant care in a hospital. So began an odyssey of a year through the medical systems of Rome and Italy, with the hope of somehow being able to return home, to his house in London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile confined to a series of hospital wards, he felt compelled to write, but being unable to type or to hold a pen, he began to dictate to family members the words which formed in his head. The result was an extraordinary series of dispatches from his hospital bed – a diary of a life in pieces, recorded with rare honesty, clarity and courage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book takes these hospital dispatches – edited, expanded and meticulously interwoven with new writing – and charts both a shattering and a reassembling: a new life born of pain and loss, but animated by new feelings – of gratitude, humility and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Moving, funny, remarkable’ Richard Eyre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Extraordinary, unique and unputdownable''\u003ci\u003e Independent \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57198588854654,"sku":"NW9780241667958","price":14.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241667958.jpg?v=1778597576","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/shattered-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}