Psychoraag
Suhayl Saadi
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It's midnight in Glasgow as DJ Zaf presents Radio Chandni’s last ever programme. The playlist features songs from the soundtracks of romantic old Indian films, Beatles' and Stranglers' classics and the music of Kula Shaker and ADF. As his broadcast goes out, Zaf’s thoughts and memories unfold – a battered black Ford Popular car toiling its way from Lahore to Britain; a shiny blue Kawasaki motorbike flashing through the Scottish countryside; an ex-lover who blames him for all the crap in her life; a fuck-off-we're-finished note from his white girlfriend; a mother who abandons all that’s safe and familiar to be with the man she loves; a father who doesn’t recognise his son; the once-exotic sight of a sari swishing along the cold wet streets of Govan; a culture defined by something as banal as plastic hankie-box holders decorated with roses; a copper mirror in a singing cave. . . Spanning generations, continents and cultures, Psychoraag will take you on a whirlwind journey into a cosmic world where the real and the surreal dissolve and the past and the present segue into each other.
Reviews
- "Psychoraag is not just Midnight’s Children-meets-Trainspotting because Saadi is more thoughtful than Welsh or Rushdie." Sunday Herald
- "Glasgow is made simultaneously strange and familiar . . . Saadi’s imagination has produced a novel as polyglot . . . pacey and audacious as the city itself." Scotland on Sunday
- "One of the most original and powerful novels to come out of Scotland for years." The List Magazine's 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time
- "... an enchanting and colourful novel that combines magical realism with the gritty reality of Glasgow's urban scene." New Statesman, Book of the Year
- "You might expect the first-ever Asian-Scottish novel to have a fair degree of ambition, but Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag has it in towering abundance." The Scotsman
- "Suhayl Saadi is emerging as a unique and important voice in Scottish writing" The Herald
Book Details
ISBN: 9781845020620
Publisher: CHROMA
Publication Date: 15 September 2005
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pages: 438 p.
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