generations of immigrants from kenya, three lifetimes of struggle — and not only with the attitudes that mukeshn he arrives in yorkshire, falls in love and starts a family. nikesh shukla's novel the one who wrote destiny is also about struggles inside themselves — the daughter who struggles with cancer, a son who chooses a career as a comedian but unfortunately isn't terribly funny. but the book is, despite its unflinching exploration of racism. welcome. it would be very easy on this subject to write a very angry book, you know, a brittle book, full of fire. and there is anger in this book, but fundamentally it's very funny. do you think that's a better way of doing it? yes, i've read a lot of very heavy books about immigration and race in the last three years. i edited a collection of essays called the good immigrant, and i am by nature a comedy writer, so i wanted to get to something that got to the heart of these people and these wonderful characters. and there is this old steve allen quote about how comedy is time plus tragedy, and what better way to talk about tragedy than through the pris

and really the engine of the story is the arrival of a kenyan immigrant, mukesh, in the 19505, who settles not in london, which would be the normal for the era, but goes to yorkshire and discovers that it isn't rock ‘n‘ roll and girls and all the things he expected. it's slightly different. so you are immediately taking the story off its axis. and it's based on the true story of my uncle who came to the uk in the 1960s, and i think, because we had relatives in huddersfield, bradford, just wasn't. .. he didn't have a network in london, to be able to find lodgings that were happy with having coloured folk back, so he ended up in keighley. and, even though my entire family now live in london, where they were meant to end up, i think that's really, and i don't really have much of a connection with keighley. and the story stretches over three generations. there is one particularly poignant strand in the story, which is the daughter who has inherited the cancer that killed, the gene that produced the cancer that killed her mother, and knows that she is going to die. i mean, you are taking it hea

generations of immigrants from kenya, three lifetimes of struggle, and not only with the attitudes that mukeshalls in love and starts a family. nikesh shukla's novel the one who wrote destiny is also about struggles inside themself, the daughter who struggles with cancer, a son who chooses a career as a comedian but unfortunately isn't terribly funny. but the book is, despite its unflinching exploration of racism. welcome. it would be very easy on this subject to write a very angry book, you know, a brittle book, full of fire. and there is anger in this book, but fundamentally it's very funny. do you think that's a better way of doing it? yes, i've read a lot of very heavy books about immigration and race in the last three years. i edited a collection of essays called the good immigrant, and i am by nature a writer, so i wanted to get to something that got to the heart of these people and these wonderful characters.

doesn't faze the vikings and even if they don't win the cup they've already one everyone's hearts mukesh done of now it seems. those two teams are playing at the volgograd arena cities formally known as stalingrad of course that's the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the second world war and delegations from both nigeria and iceland have laid flowers at the eternal flame which burns in memory of those who gave their lives in battle. back to the early again where things got off to a bang and some painters burkle those proved heartbreaking for underdogs costa rica in group a he sally was watching the game for us at the same petersburg stadium. well the mood here especially amongst the large brazilian contingent is overwhelmingly of relief gavriel he says how the goal disallowed in the past. about twelve minutes from the and the dramatic incident nabl had been brought down in the box and they should be the referee gave a penalty and checking with the v.a.r. says to me all the time this decision the penalty was over the not given and that led to howls of outrage amongst the brazilian

and really the engine of the story is the arrival of a kenyan immigrant, mukesh, in the 1950s, who settles the 1960s, and i think, because we had relatives in huddersfield, bradford, just wasn‘t... he didn‘t have a network in london, to be able to find lodgings that were happy with having coloured folk back, so he ended up in keighley. and, even though my entire family now live in london, where they were meant to end up, i think that‘s really, and i don‘t really have much of a connection with keighley. and the story stretches over three generations. there is one particularly poignant strand in the story, which is the daughter who has inherited the cancer that killed, the gene that produced the cancer that killed her mother, and knows that she is going to die. i mean, you are taking it head—on there. yes, it‘s — i wanted, with this book, to write some british south asian characters that you just don‘t see. and, you know, too often the books that get published by british authors from a south asian background often tend to be about identity or radicalisation, or arranged marriages. and myjoke