In Our Mad And Furious City Av Guy Gunaratne

<p><b>*WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE, THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE AUTHORS'' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD*</b><br><b>*LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE*</b><br><b>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE AND THE GORDON BURN*<br>''I was gripped... remarkable'' Robert Macfarlane, <i>Guardian </i>Books of the Year<br></b><b>''A novel that doesn''t flinch, and demands change right now'' Ali Smith</b><br><b>''A novel so of this moment that you don''t even realize you''ve waited your whole life for it'' Marlon James</b><br><br>For Selvon, Ardan and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music and freedom. But now, after the killing of a British soldier, riots are spreading across the city, and nowhere is safe.<br><br>While the fury swirls around them, Selvon and Ardan remain focused on their own obsessions, girls and grime. Their friend Yusuf is caught up in a different tide, a wave of radicalism surging through his local mosque, threatening to carry his troubled brother, Irfan, with it.</p>