Hanif Kureishi

Well, I think at the beginning there was a lot of anger, you know, from me mostly. when you have your life, as it were, your normal life, your ordinary life, snatched away from you by an illness, as I say, as will happen to so many of us, you are absolutely furious. And you become furious with the people around you. You become furious with your life.

You can't believe this horror has happened to you. It's a contingent, random thing that's happened to you just out of the blue, you know? Um... I'll give you some examples. When I was in hospital in North London in the rehab, I was on a ward of accidents. Everybody on the ward had had an accident. One guy had dived into an empty swimming pool by mistake.

You can't believe this horror has happened to you. It's a contingent, random thing that's happened to you just out of the blue, you know? Um... I'll give you some examples. When I was in hospital in North London in the rehab, I was on a ward of accidents. Everybody on the ward had had an accident. One guy had dived into an empty swimming pool by mistake.

You can't believe this horror has happened to you. It's a contingent, random thing that's happened to you just out of the blue, you know? Um... I'll give you some examples. When I was in hospital in North London in the rehab, I was on a ward of accidents. Everybody on the ward had had an accident. One guy had dived into an empty swimming pool by mistake.

Another guy had fallen down the stairs while drinking a glass of wine. Another guy had fallen over his rake in his garden and just tripped over it and fell down and broke his neck and was paralyzed. So we all had these random, rather contingent accidents, which suddenly, in a moment, completely change your life forever and there's no going back. That is absolutely enraging.

Another guy had fallen down the stairs while drinking a glass of wine. Another guy had fallen over his rake in his garden and just tripped over it and fell down and broke his neck and was paralyzed. So we all had these random, rather contingent accidents, which suddenly, in a moment, completely change your life forever and there's no going back. That is absolutely enraging.

Another guy had fallen down the stairs while drinking a glass of wine. Another guy had fallen over his rake in his garden and just tripped over it and fell down and broke his neck and was paralyzed. So we all had these random, rather contingent accidents, which suddenly, in a moment, completely change your life forever and there's no going back. That is absolutely enraging.

You think, you know, why couldn't I have been doing something else at that moment? You know, why did that moment... To me, why have I been chosen? What have I done wrong? You go through all these terrible, awful thoughts about who has done this to you and why it's happened. And it makes you an angry person.

You think, you know, why couldn't I have been doing something else at that moment? You know, why did that moment... To me, why have I been chosen? What have I done wrong? You go through all these terrible, awful thoughts about who has done this to you and why it's happened. And it makes you an angry person.

You think, you know, why couldn't I have been doing something else at that moment? You know, why did that moment... To me, why have I been chosen? What have I done wrong? You go through all these terrible, awful thoughts about who has done this to you and why it's happened. And it makes you an angry person.

So I think there are moments, quite rightly, where you deserve to feel angry, but it's tough on the people around you.

So I think there are moments, quite rightly, where you deserve to feel angry, but it's tough on the people around you.

So I think there are moments, quite rightly, where you deserve to feel angry, but it's tough on the people around you.

When I was in Rome, in the hospital, everyone was white. You never saw a person of colour. It's the only monocultural country, Italy, really, in Europe. And Isabella says that I'm wrong about that, that it's beginning to change. But I didn't see any people of colour in the hospitals in Italy, really.

When I was in Rome, in the hospital, everyone was white. You never saw a person of colour. It's the only monocultural country, Italy, really, in Europe. And Isabella says that I'm wrong about that, that it's beginning to change. But I didn't see any people of colour in the hospitals in Italy, really.

When I was in Rome, in the hospital, everyone was white. You never saw a person of colour. It's the only monocultural country, Italy, really, in Europe. And Isabella says that I'm wrong about that, that it's beginning to change. But I didn't see any people of colour in the hospitals in Italy, really.

And then, of course, you come to London around the corner from here where I am in West London now. And obviously the whole of our huge NHS is run by people from all over the world. And it's just incredible to lie in bed, to be changed and washed by someone. And you have these incredible conversations with somebody from London.

And then, of course, you come to London around the corner from here where I am in West London now. And obviously the whole of our huge NHS is run by people from all over the world. And it's just incredible to lie in bed, to be changed and washed by someone. And you have these incredible conversations with somebody from London.

And then, of course, you come to London around the corner from here where I am in West London now. And obviously the whole of our huge NHS is run by people from all over the world. And it's just incredible to lie in bed, to be changed and washed by someone. And you have these incredible conversations with somebody from London.

Africa, from the Philippines, from South Africa, India, Pakistan, and so on. It's incredible stew in great multiracial, multicultural society. But one of the things you become aware of, certainly in these British hospitals, is is our dependence in Britain on immigration and on other races. The place, the hospitals, none of it.