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pick up hisprayer mat and get out of my house.  \nWhen Parvez's son Ali startsclearing out his bedroom,Parvez assumes he's sellinghis possessions to pay fordrugs.His fellow taxi driversare triumphant:they knewsomething was wrong.Bettina,the prostitute Parvez regularlydrives home,tells him the signsto look out for.But nothing isphysically different about Aliexcept that he is growing a beard-and is suddenly praying fivetimes a day.  \nFirst published in March 1994,Hanif Kureishi's comedy of  \nassimilation is both uproariouslyfunny and so prescient it's barelyfunny at all.  \nC(4  \nthe Fanatic  \nFaberStories  \nick\"hi  \nHanif Kureishi grew up in Kent and studied phil-osophy at King's College,London.His novels in-clude The Buddha of Suburbia,which won theWhitbread Prize for Best First Novel,The BlackAlbum,Intimacy,and The Last Word.His screen-plays include My Beautiful Laundrette,which re-ceived an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay,Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and Le Week-End.Hehas also published several collections of short sto-ries.Kureishi has been awarded the Chevalier dePOrdre des Arts et des Lettres,the PEN/PinterPrize,and is a Commander of the Order of theBritish Empire.His work has been translated intothirty-six languages.He is a professor of CreativeWriting at Kingston University.  \n# HanifKureishi\n\nFaberStories  \nMy Sonthe Fanatic  \nfi  \nFirst published in this single edition in 2019by Faber &Faber LimitedBloomsbury House  \n74-77 Great Russell StreetLondon WC1B3DAFirst published in Love in a Blue Time in 1996  \nTypeset by Faber &Faber LimitedPrinted and bound by CPI Group(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CRO 4YY  \nAll rights reserved  \n◎Hanif Kureishi,1996  \nThe right of Hanif Kureishi to be identified as author of this workhas been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988  \nA CIP record for this book  \nis available from the British Library  \nISBN 978-0-571-35615-7  \n10987654321  \nSCurreptitiously the father began going intohis son's bedroom.He would sit there forhours,rousing himself only to seek clues.What bewildered him was that Ali was gettingtidier.Instead of the usual tangle of clothes,books,cricket bats,video games,the roomwas becoming neat and ordered;spaces beganappearing where before there had been onlymess.  \nInitially Parvez had been pleased:his sonwas outgrowing his teenage attitudes.But oneday,beside the dustbin,Parvez found a tornbag which contained not only old toys,butcomputer discs,video tapes,new books andfashionable clothes the boy had bought just afew months before.Also without explanation,Ali had parted from the English girlfriendwho used to come often to the house.His oldfriends had stopped ringing.  \nFor reasons he didn't himself understand,Parvez wasn't able to bring up the subject ofAli's unusual behaviour.He was aware thathe had become slightly afraid of his son,who,alongside his silences,was developing asharp tongue.One remark Parvez did make,'You don't play your guitar any more,elicitedthe mysterious but conclusive reply,Thereare more important things to be done.'  \nYet Parvez felt his son's eccentricity asan injustice.He had always been aware ofthe pitfalls which other men's sons had fal-len into in England.And so,for Ali,he hadworked long hours and spent a lot of moneypaying for his education as an accountant.He had bought him good suits,all the bookshe required and a computer.And now the boywas throwing his possessions out!  \nThe TV,video and sound system followed  \nthe guitar.Soon the room was practicallybare.Even the unhappy walls bore markswhere Ali's pictures had been removed.  \nParvez couldn't sleep;he went more to thewhisky bottle,even when he was at work.Herealised it was imperative to discuss the mat-ter with someone sympathetic.  \nParvez had been a taxi driver for twentyyears.Half that time he'd worked for the samefirm.Like him,most of the other drivers werePunjabis.They preferred to work at 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