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Anita and Me

By Meera Syal

Anita and Me Contemporary literature

Anita and Me

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The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach. The story of nine-year-old Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village of Tollington. It's 1972. Meena is nine years old and lives in the village of Tollington, 'the jewel of the Black Country'. She is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life. As one of the few Punjabi inhabitants of her village, her daily struggle for independence is different from most. She wants fishfingers and chips, not chapati and dhal; she wants an English Christmas, not the usual interminable Punjabi festivities - but more than anything, she wants to roam the backyards of working-class Tollington with feisty Anita Rutter and her gang. Blonde, cool, aloof, outrageous and sassy, Anita is everything Meena thinks she wants to be. Meena wheedles her way into Anita's life, but the arrival of a baby brother, teenage hormones, impending entrance exams for the posh grammar school and a motorcycling rebel without a future, threaten to turn Anita's salad days sour. Anita and Me paints a comic, poignant, compassionate and colourful portrait of village life in the era of flares, power cuts, glam rock, decimalisation and Ted Heath. It is a unique vision of a British childhood in the Seventies, a childhood caught between two cultures, each on the brink of change.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
1997-04-01
Publication Date:
1997-04-07
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0006548768
ISBN13:
9780006548768
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
238 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
27 cm

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