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Shattered

Hanif Kureishi

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#2345 of 3,809 books · #848 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2025).

Shattered was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Award 2025. Imagine your life changing in a second: one minute you are watching the football with a beer, the next you are on the floor in a pool of blood, deprived of the use of your arms and legs. This fall renders you paralysed, robbed of your independence, entirely reliant on others for everything. This happened to writer Hanif Kureishi on Boxing Day 2022. His account of what happened and its aftermath is a unique, riveting and frequently riotous account of a year-long odyssey home through five hospitals. From despair to hope, rage to courage, it might be the most truthful, and the funniest, medical disaster story ever written.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781405959766
Topics
Paralysis and disabilityRecovery and resilienceHospitalization

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