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The film of the same name won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. "This is a sad night, because I am leaving here and never coming back." Jay, a down-and-out artist, is about to leave his partner Susan and two sons. In the long night before running away from home, he recalled every moment with Susan. But for Jay, he must create a new life... A strange woman, Anna, comes to Jay's residence... After a brief meeting, Jay wants to know everything about her, and the relationship between the two undergoes subtle changes. Hanif Qureshi, a descendant of Pakistani immigrants, was born in Kent, England, in 1954. His works include stage scripts, novels, essays, radio plays and TV movie scripts, etc. He is also a film director. Nominated for two Academy Awards for screenplay. He is an Asian writer who has achieved great influence in the world literary world. The humor and irony in his early works are world-renowned, and his recent works are full of moving and affectionate explorations of lust and sexual conflicts. With his humorous, refined and avant-garde style, he is recognized as one of the most charming and outstanding writers in the world's literary world today. His representative works include "Suburban Buddha", which won the Whitbread Literary Award, "Intimacy", the original work of the Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Award-winning film of the same name, and "The Body" and "I Have Something to Say to You".
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