Like many other western cities, London has been experiencing in recent years a very worrying phenomenon: that of immigrants of second or third generation who reject integration arduous search of their fathers, by embracing a culture dell'autosegregazione, and forming small groups on an ethnic basis in constant conflict with each other.
of the band "rudeboys "Which is the undisputed leader of the charismatic Hardjit are part Amit, Ravi and Jas, the narrator of the novel: a nineteen year old and still a virgin so who wants desperately to be accepted by the group and to shake off an image from" thin mezzapippa 'takes a macho attitudes that often make it ridiculous. The four boys avoid school and go around the neighborhood on "Biemme (BMW) of the mother of Ravi, deafening bystanders with their" right music ", dealing in stolen phones, obsessed with the rhetoric of respect, worship body, a stupid consumerist materialism, often taking behaviors homophobic and misogynist. To Jas and compare great opportunity presents itself when a professor with the naive intention to take them off the road, puts them in touch with Sanjay, a former pupil graduated from Cambridge. In fact, the basis for success and the lifestyle there is a dazzling Sanjay turnover not exactly legal, where Jas and friends become involved willingly. The mail gets up and, Jas, the pressure increase: on the one hand, the friends, business and family, on the other Samira, a Muslim girl he fell in love and secretly attended by all, without providing for the disastrous consequences that will bring this passion in his life. The situation, in fact, will be much more Apart from its wisdom from Rudeboy and events they will fall into a vortex from which he will not be easy to save.
With its extraordinary expressive energy, mixing slang of the streets of London with the Panjabi and local bastardization of "gangsta rap", Malkani paints a provocative and disturbing the underground youth culture, this attitude of angry hostility towards everything that is ethnically integrated and politically correct attitude that has often set fire to the western outskirts of cities, and that the policy seems totally unable to deal with, if not as mere repression.
of the band "rudeboys "Which is the undisputed leader of the charismatic Hardjit are part Amit, Ravi and Jas, the narrator of the novel: a nineteen year old and still a virgin so who wants desperately to be accepted by the group and to shake off an image from" thin mezzapippa 'takes a macho attitudes that often make it ridiculous. The four boys avoid school and go around the neighborhood on "Biemme (BMW) of the mother of Ravi, deafening bystanders with their" right music ", dealing in stolen phones, obsessed with the rhetoric of respect, worship body, a stupid consumerist materialism, often taking behaviors homophobic and misogynist. To Jas and compare great opportunity presents itself when a professor with the naive intention to take them off the road, puts them in touch with Sanjay, a former pupil graduated from Cambridge. In fact, the basis for success and the lifestyle there is a dazzling Sanjay turnover not exactly legal, where Jas and friends become involved willingly. The mail gets up and, Jas, the pressure increase: on the one hand, the friends, business and family, on the other Samira, a Muslim girl he fell in love and secretly attended by all, without providing for the disastrous consequences that will bring this passion in his life. The situation, in fact, will be much more Apart from its wisdom from Rudeboy and events they will fall into a vortex from which he will not be easy to save.
With its extraordinary expressive energy, mixing slang of the streets of London with the Panjabi and local bastardization of "gangsta rap", Malkani paints a provocative and disturbing the underground youth culture, this attitude of angry hostility towards everything that is ethnically integrated and politically correct attitude that has often set fire to the western outskirts of cities, and that the policy seems totally unable to deal with, if not as mere repression.
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