Skip to Main Content (Press Enter)
Mister, Mister by Guy Gunaratne
Add Mister, Mister to bookshelf
Add to Bookshelf

Look Inside

Mister, Mister

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

By Guy Gunaratne

By Guy Gunaratne

By Guy Gunaratne

By Guy Gunaratne

By Guy Gunaratne

By Guy Gunaratne

By Guy Gunaratne
Read by Guy Gunaratne

By Guy Gunaratne
Read by Guy Gunaratne

Best Seller
Paperback $18.00

Sep 10, 2024 | ISBN 9780593687277

Hardcover $28.00

Oct 03, 2023 | ISBN 9780593701423

Ebook $12.99

Oct 03, 2023 | ISBN 9780593701430

Audiobook Download $22.50

Oct 03, 2023 | 821 Minutes

All Formats
+
    Mister, Mister by Guy Gunaratne
    Paperback $18.00
    Sep 10, 2024 | ISBN 9780593687277

    Buy from Other Retailers:

    See All Formats (3) +
    • $18.00

      Sep 10, 2024 | ISBN 9780593687277

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    • $28.00

      Oct 03, 2023 | ISBN 9780593701423

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    • Oct 03, 2023 | ISBN 9780593701430

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    • Oct 03, 2023 | ISBN 9780593822494

      821 Minutes

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    Buy the Audiobook Download:

    About Mister, Mister

    A blazingly propulsive novel from the prize-winning author of In Our Mad and Furious City, following a captured jihadist and poet-preacher as he recounts his path to international notoriety

    Who is Yahya Bas? Revolutionary poet, notorious jihadist, misbegotten son, self-styled idiot-boy. When the enigmatic Yahya finds himself languishing in a detention center after fleeing the conflict in Syria, he has many questions to face.

    What was he doing in the desert? Why did he betray his home country? What led him to write the incendiary verses that launched him into international infamy? Mister, his interrogator, wants answers. So Yahya  resolves to tell his own story, in his own words, and on his own terms.

    Mister, Mister is what follows: a coming-of-age story of radical self-invention, a quest for a long-lost father, and a discovery of another way to live in the shadow of war. Brash, biting, yet ultimately tender and bracingly imaginative, Mister, Mister follows a child of the tumultuous 90s and the ravaged aughts as he becomes the unwitting voice of a generation.

    Who is Yahya Bas? An anti-hero for our modern era, in which we’ve just begun to survey the wreckage of the West’s forever-wars.

    About Mister, Mister

    A blazingly propulsive novel from the prize-winning author of In Our Mad and Furious City, following a captured jihadist and poet-preacher as he recounts his path to international notoriety

    Who is Yahya Bas? Revolutionary poet, notorious jihadist, misbegotten son, self-styled idiot-boy. When the enigmatic Yahya finds himself languishing in a detention center after fleeing the conflict in Syria, he has many questions to face.

    What was he doing in the desert? Why did he betray his home country? What led him to write the incendiary verses that launched him into international infamy? Mister, his interrogator, wants answers. So Yahya  resolves to tell his own story, in his own words, and on his own terms.

    Mister, Mister is what follows: a coming-of-age story of radical self-invention, a quest for a long-lost father, and a discovery of another way to live in the shadow of war. Brash, biting, yet ultimately tender and bracingly imaginative, Mister, Mister follows a child of the tumultuous 90s and the ravaged aughts as he becomes the unwitting voice of a generation.

    Who is Yahya Bas? An anti-hero for our modern era, in which we’ve just begun to survey the wreckage of the West’s forever-wars.

    About Mister, Mister

    A blazingly propulsive novel from the prize-winning author of In Our Mad and Furious City, following a captured jihadist and poet-preacher as he recounts his path to international notoriety

    Who is Yahya Bas? Revolutionary poet, notorious jihadist, misbegotten son, self-styled idiot-boy. When the enigmatic Yahya finds himself languishing in a detention center after fleeing the conflict in Syria, he has many questions to face.

    What was he doing in the desert? Why did he betray his home country? What led him to write the incendiary verses that launched him into international infamy? Mister, his interrogator, wants answers. So Yahya  resolves to tell his own story, in his own words, and on his own terms.

    Mister, Mister is what follows: a coming-of-age story of radical self-invention, a quest for a long-lost father, and a discovery of another way to live in the shadow of war. Brash, biting, yet ultimately tender and bracingly imaginative, Mister, Mister follows a child of the tumultuous 90s and the ravaged aughts as he becomes the unwitting voice of a generation.

    Who is Yahya Bas? An anti-hero for our modern era, in which we’ve just begun to survey the wreckage of the West’s forever-wars.

    About Mister, Mister

    A blazingly propulsive novel from the prize-winning author of In Our Mad and Furious City, following a captured jihadist and poet-preacher as he recounts his path to international notoriety

    Who is Yahya Bas? Revolutionary poet, notorious jihadist, misbegotten son, self-styled idiot-boy. When the enigmatic Yahya finds himself languishing in a detention center after fleeing the conflict in Syria, he has many questions to face.

    What was he doing in the desert? Why did he betray his home country? What led him to write the incendiary verses that launched him into international infamy? Mister, his interrogator, wants answers. So Yahya  resolves to tell his own story, in his own words, and on his own terms.

    Mister, Mister is what follows: a coming-of-age story of radical self-invention, a quest for a long-lost father, and a discovery of another way to live in the shadow of war. Brash, biting, yet ultimately tender and bracingly imaginative, Mister, Mister follows a child of the tumultuous 90s and the ravaged aughts as he becomes the unwitting voice of a generation.

    Who is Yahya Bas? An anti-hero for our modern era, in which we’ve just begun to survey the wreckage of the West’s forever-wars.

    Read An Excerpt

    Read An Excerpt

    Read An Excerpt

    Read An Excerpt

    Listen to a sample from Mister, Mister

    About Guy Gunaratne

    GUY GUNARATNE is the author of Mister, Mister and In Our Mad and Furious City, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Jhalak Prize, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Guy… More about Guy Gunaratne

    About Guy Gunaratne

    GUY GUNARATNE is the author of Mister, Mister and In Our Mad and Furious City, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Jhalak Prize, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Guy… More about Guy Gunaratne

    About Guy Gunaratne

    GUY GUNARATNE is the author of Mister, Mister and In Our Mad and Furious City, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Jhalak Prize, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Guy… More about Guy Gunaratne

    About Guy Gunaratne

    GUY GUNARATNE is the author of Mister, Mister and In Our Mad and Furious City, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Jhalak Prize, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Guy… More about Guy Gunaratne

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 10, 2024 | 384 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780593687277

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $28.00
    Published by Pantheon
    Oct 03, 2023 | 384 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780593701423

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 03, 2023 | 384 Pages | ISBN 9780593701430

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $22.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Oct 03, 2023 | 821 Minutes | ISBN 9780593822494

    YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

    Praise

    “Gunaratne has a gift for inhabiting the lives of their characters.”
    —The New York Times

    “Guy Gunaratne throws words against the wall and makes us watch them bounce. You feel the heat, reel from the sound, and bump to the unstoppable pulse.” 
    ―Marlon James, winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize
     
    “Thrillingly ambitious.” 
    —Guardian

    “Gunaratne creates in their narrator, Yahya, a perceptive, sensitive character with an energetic and affecting voice….A penetrating view of the legacies of extremism.”
    —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

    “Brilliantly evocative of the effects of recent horrors many people are all-too keen to forget, Gunaratne’s latest affirms that they are a writer with a unique voice and a magnificent ear for dialogue.”
    —Booklist

    Table Of Contents

    Part I: 1990–2005
    Idiot Boy 3
    Boukie-Head 69
    Yah! Yah! Yah! 125

    Part II: 2010–15
    Al-Bayn 189
    Zeinab 233
    Yahya Bas 331

    Acknowledgements 373

    Looking for More Great Reads?
    21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read

    Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network

    Raise kids who love to read

    Brightly

    Raise kids who love to read

    Today's Top Books

    Today's Top Books

    Want to know what people are actually reading right now?

         An online magazine for today’s home cook

    TASTE

    An online magazine for today’s home cook