There Has to Be a Knife by Adnan Khan

There Has to Be a Knife

Adnan Khan

224 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction dark slow-paced

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In this blistering debut novel, author Adnan Khan investigates themes of race, class, masculinity and contemporary relationships. Omar Ali, twenty-seven-year-old line cook and petty criminal, gets a phone call from his ex-girlfriend's father at wo...

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