My Beautiful Laundrette

My Beautiful Laundrette

By Hanif Kureishi

Pages

84

Rating

3.62

Year

1986

ContemporaryFictionDramaPlaysBritish LiteratureLGBT

Description

Omar is a restless young Asian man, caring for his alcoholic father in the hustling London of the mid-1980s. His uncle, a keen Thatcherite, offers Omar an entrepreneurial opportunity to revamp a dingy laundrette, and ambitious Omar rolls up his sleeves, enlisting the assistance of his old school-friend Johnny, who has since fallen in with a gang of neo-fascists. Omar and Johnny soon form an unlikely alliance that leads to business success, as well as other, more intimate surprises.
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