The body

Hanif Kureishi

Original title: The Body

Also published as: Granta 39

earliest edition we have, 1992 Scribner, 2004 hardcover 149 pages

"What if you were middle-aged and were offered the chance to trade in your sagging flesh for a much younger and more pleasing model? This is the situation in which the main character of The Body finds himself. Taking the plunge, he embarks on an odyssey of hedonism, but soon regrets what he has left behind, as the responsibilities he thought he had sloughed off now begin to come home to him. Sinister forces are pursu...

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Editions we hold

El Cuerpo paperback · 2004 · Anagrama · 9788433970350
O Corpo paperback · 2004 · Companhia das Letras · 9788535905274
The body hardcover · 2004 · Scribner · 149 pages · 9780743249041
The body edition · 2003 · Faber · 266 pages
The Body paperback · 2003 · Faber and Faber · 224 pages · 9780571217779
The body edition · 2002 · Faber and Faber · 266 pages
Granta 39 paperback · 1992 · Penguin Books · 256 pages · 9780140140491
Granta 39 paperback · 1992 · Viking Penguin Inc · 256 pages

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