Osman Yousefzada
The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds
The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds
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The Go-Between is a coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, exploring the adult world through Osman's eyes. It explores alternative masculinities, gender roles, female erasure, and honor-based violence, and the struggles of racism and community expectations.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 26 January 2023
Publisher: Canongate Books
Winner of the Biographers' Club slightly foxed best first biography prize, The Go-Between is a coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s. It offers a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the tracks. Through Osman's eyes, the adult world is seen as a child, with his own devout migrant Muslim patriarchal community living cheek-by-jowl with parallel migrant communities. Alternative masculinities compete with strict gender roles, and female erasure and honor-based violence are committed, even as empowering female friendships prevail. Osman's stories, some fantastical and humorous, others melancholy and even harrowing, take us from Birmingham's childhood to the banks of the Kabul and Indus rivers and eventually to London's teenage years. Osman weaves in and out of these worlds, struggling with the dual burdens of racism and community expectations, as he is forced to realize it is no longer possible to exist in the spaces in between.
Weight: 262g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781838859787
Edition number: Main
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