BLACK ALBUM, THE - Faber #

The Black Album is published here as part of Revolutionary Writing ? a series celebrating provocative political fiction from around the world.

In 1989, the year that Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced his infamous fatwa upon Salman Rushdie, Shahid Hasan moves to London from the provinces after the death of his father. He lives in a Kilburn bedsit, falls in love with a college lecturer, and soon finds himself passionately embroiled in a spiritual battle between liberalism and fundamentalism.