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Is fiction following fact in Hanif Kureishi’s new novel The Last Word?

ImageMamoon Azam is a once-feted giant of the literary scene, a distinguished Indian-born novelist, essayist and playwright. Think Salman Rushdie. Or better still, think VS Naipaul for reasons that will be explained later. Over-the top (aka deranged) book editor Rob Devereaux has brokered the deal with Mamoon’s second wife, Liana, half fiery saint half golddigger for it will rescue Mamoon from rapidly onset obscurity and financial hardship. It will be “extreme biography”. An event. A “big bang” and it will prompt the re-issuing of all Mamoon’s books.

Harry Johnson, who had once published a well-received biography of Nehru, is commissioned to write the biography Harry, who has

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