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M.Y. Alam
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Pages: 224 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1901927326
Pub: Route Publishing
Pub date: 2006-11-08
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 235371
Reader Reviews:
Stories we should be hearing everyday (1/1 people found this helpful)
I have just finished this book having read it back to back in two short sittings - unusual for me to read so fast but it tells you how compulsive it was.
Made in Bradford is a timely book and one that excels in its simplicity - a presentation of interviews with Bradford born/resident British-Pakistani men; too often the voices we hear the least of in the media stories. It reads with the lightest of editing (though one must remain aware of the author's friendships with the interviewees) and very much like talk-head monologues; each chapter a flow of consciousness from an interviewee about a particular subject.
Though part of a larger academic study, Made in Bradford refreshingly is stripped of the research and just presents the interviews with no commentary for you to make of what you will. I found the interviews funny, compelling, familiar, energising, angry, mundane and more. In summary, stories of everyday lives, making sense of something bigger.
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