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Hate skews reality even more than love. In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishis acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafkas relationship with his father, readers will find Kureishi also exploring the topics that he continues to make new, and make his own: growing up and growing old betrayal and Hate skews reality even more than love. In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishis acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafkas relationship with his father, readers will find Kureishi also exploring the topics that he continues to make new, and make his own: growing up and growing old betrayal and loyalty imagination and repression marriage and fatherhood. The collection ends with a bravura piece of very personal reportage about the conman who stole Kureishis life savings - a man who provoked both admiration and disgust, obsession and revulsion, love and hate.