One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don\'t need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder.
But when he suspects that Zee is beginning an affair with Eddie, \'more than an acquaintance and less than a friend for over thirty years,\' Waldo is pressed to action: determined to expose the couple, he sets himself first to prove his suspicions correct - and then to enact his revenge.
Written with characteristic black humour and with an acute eye for detail, Kureishi\'s eagerly awaited novella will have his readers dazzled once again by a brilliant mind at work..
Frail and frustrated, he is cared for by his lovely younger wife, Zee.
I am sure they are making love in Zenab\'s bedroom which is next to mine.
Waldo, a feted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment.
One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don\'t need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder