The Gobetween A Portrait Of Growing Up Between Different Worlds Osman Yousefzada by Osman Yousefzada 9781786893529, 1786893525 instant download after payment.

A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the tracks.
The
adult world is seen through Osman's eyes as a child: his own devout
Pashtun patriarchal community, with its divide between the world of men
and women, living cheek-by-jowl with parallel migrant communities. The
orthodox attend a mosque down the road from the prostitutes and pimps.
Children balance Western school teachings with cultural traditions.
Alternative
masculinities compete with strict gender roles, and female erasure and
honour-based violence are committed, even as empowering female
friendships prevail. The stories Osman tells, some fantastical and
humorous, others melancholy and even harrowing, take us from the
Birmingham of Osman's childhood to the banks of the river Kabul and the
river Indus, and, eventually, to the London of his 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 realise it is no
longer possible to exist in the spaces in between.