Waqar's review of Unimagined: A Muslim Boy Meets the West

Unimagined: A Muslim Boy Meets the West Unimagined: A Muslim Boy Meets the West
by Imran Ahmad
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status: Read in March, 2007 — I have a copy to sell/swap

This book is written out like an autobiography of the author whose family migrated from Pakistan to England shortly after partition when he was still a small child. Its chapters are indexed by the year he is writing about and his age at the time, with rarely more than 6 pages devoted to each year. This makes the book a quick read.

The book lists the author's observations of and reflections on the world around him. The style is candid and the author's personal sense of humour shines through as he tackles living in the West while simultaneously harbouring Islamic values. While the author experiences many of the things of a typical teenage boy at the time, these is an added strain of the conflict between the different realities he finds himself in - the West around him and his traditional Islamic values, his being coloured in a society dominated by white people.

Whereas writings on the above topics can make for heavy and serious reading, I commend the author for pres...more
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