Word: londonstani
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...Fair, the manuscript was sold after fierce bidding to the British publisher Fourth Estate for a reported $675,000 as part of a two-book deal. That doesn't include translation rights in nearly as many countries as you can fly to from Heathrow. The book's timely title, Londonstani, reflects the public concern - heightened by last July's London suicide bombings - over Britain's growing Muslim and South Asian character. The 29-year-old author, Gautam Malkani, is dripping with street cred, having grown up in Hounslow before moving on to a Cambridge degree and a senior...
...universal. "I started going to desi nights at London clubs and found that white kids were now welcome," he says. "The beauty of the desi scene is that you don't have to have brown skin to be part of it." The growing acceptance of desi culture may widen Londonstani's audience, but Malkani chafes at comparisons with Monica Ali and Zadie Smith. "They're great writers," he says. "I was just trying to do a coming-of-age novel similar to the ones I read when I was growing up. You know, S.E. Hinton books like Rumble Fish...