--- product_id: 79036462 title: "The Body: A Novel" brand: "hanif kureishi" price: "₱4212" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 6 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/79036462-the-body-a-novel store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # The Body: A Novel **Brand:** hanif kureishi **Price:** ₱4212 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Body: A Novel by hanif kureishi - **How much does it cost?** ₱4212 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/79036462-the-body-a-novel) ## Best For - hanif kureishi enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted hanif kureishi brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Body: A Novel ## Images ![The Body: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/511gQa0gwTS.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐ Not recommended *by P***A on Reviewed in India on 29 September 2015* A theory loving friend of mine once argued that the notion of portraits or the concept of ‘physical self’ must have developed around the same time as the invention of mirrors in the sixteenth century. This led me to wonder how people had considered their own image, face, and body; and appreciated the 'difference' from the other. Is this notion a reversal of the kind where instead of consciousness awakening to the subjective sense of ‘I’, the accumulated sensations and objective bodily perception leads to a joyous eruption of self-awareness? Is that why everyone is laboring over their bodies, as if the mind’s longing and anxieties can be cured via the body? I would always argue against this, yet this book made me think through the story of Adam. Adam is an old and famous playwright who decides to trade his aged body for young flesh while preserving his brain in the new body. Kureishi narrates Adam's life from there on..The first thing that Kureishi made me notice, though indirectly, was the idea of using the body as an ‘object’. Whereas, Adam’s monologue was about how important a young body is and he was rather drawn to the way youngsters accessorize their bodies. My perspective is that bodies can be ‘communicative in many varieties’, they can be deceptive at the same time in giving away about your mood, your personality and anxieties- by the kind of tattoo you wear, what you expose, why must you expose, how much you groom….Some bodies are inviting, some repulsive and others discreet. In hindsight, if the book made me think this much, then I think Kureishi is praise worthy. And then, maybe I ought to ignore the little judgmental voice in my head that just loves to run its hypothetical mouth. Yet, I cannot stop mentioning that the book had some excellent sections and occasionally contemplative prose, I could only grasp a fraction of Kurieshi’s idea behind this book. His science fiction plot of the book was a trial, and, I endured it. In return of his torture with the obscurities and abstruse ending that distracted me from musing; I pour all of my anger in this review. Kureishi did not develop the plot as much and I found him skirting along the intricacies that the story deserved. If he was not interested in taking the story a bit seriously, he could have simply written an essay! Conclusively, I disagree with Kurieshi (Adam) on every thing!I was particularly displeased with the Adam’s perspective of elderly-‘how young terrify the old with their incomprehensibly hip vocabulary and threatening presence’-which led him to get his brain surgically placed in a younger man's body. Actually, Kureishi attempted to build the idea of using the body as an object to buy youthful years. It led me to think how a possibility of extending life or staying alive or being young can make one’s present and past mundane. I wish, people (both young and old) could look beyond wrinkles, sagging flesh, the clouded eyes and the sparse hair; to the rich histories they have created and the tapestries of a life well lived and the adventures they will undertake which can keep them entertained for as long they live!If you want to think as hard as I did for the sake of a review, you can read this book for its prose, the plot however, is flimsy. Not recommended. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ everything was exactly as promised *by A***A on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 August 2018* the book is perfect conditions ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good product and fast delivery *by E***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 October 2014* I received the item fast and it was as described in informationbox. 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