Manzoor, Sarfraz (18 February 2017). "Sarfraz Manzoor: Our long, hard battle to have a second child". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 20 February 2019. Around twenty-five minutes into the interview, Wurtzel suddenly said, `Hey, are you sure this thing is working?' She was pointing at my dictaphone. `I'm pretty sure there should be, like, a red light or something?'

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You don’t need to be a fan of America’s blue-collar poet — or a British Asian for that matter — to enjoy this deeply touching memoir. . . . One of the most honest depiction second-generation experience I have come across.”—Chitra Rawaswamy, Scotland on Sunday Ironically, in the screenplay he wrote 10 years later, I felt the relationship the protagonist Javed had with his father had all the nuances that I craved from his memoir. It was rich and complex. The film didn’t end up being reverent towards the father whereas the book almost screamed of all the guilt that Manzoor felt that when his father was alive he didn’t quite like his dad. ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2008 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved April 29, 2022.

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a b "Happy 40th: Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings From Asbury Park, New Jersey' ". CBS. 1973-07-05. Archived from the original on October 8, 2016 . Retrieved 2014-01-25. But I think maybe why the memoir felt short changed for me was because Manzoor felt he had to showcase a specific view of what it meant to be a modern Pakistani Muslim man in Britain. And unfortunately a lot of what that meant was showing how he had assimilated to “western” lifestyle. Manzoor feels like a man still struggling to understand what his place is as a British person. His memoir in many ways is also a letter of reconciliation with Luton, a town he hated growing up in but could see its beauty the older he got. However, in the memoir he hasn’t quite figured it out.

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Javed is a reserved and quiet boy who from the outside who seems like a shell. On the inside however, he’s in turmoil. He’s depressed and his only outlet is his writing. Discouraged by his family, he at first places no value on his writing. But through the magic of Springsteen he begins to see how his life does have meaning and more importantly how he can create meaning for himself. Perhaps what makes this film incredibly moving is- Javed learns that being free does not necessarily have to mean a complete rejection of his Pakistani roots. He learns to accept his identity as a British boy is also inherently tied to being Pakistani. This felt particularly revolutionary considering the film is set 1987 Thatcherite Britain. And this TV business, is it secure?' he asked. `Is there any future in it?' His voice was not filled with scepticism as I had expected but concern; when I answered that it depended on how good I was he nodded. My father was not a man given to extravagant flourishes of enthusiasm. `So you might be a journalist?' my father continued. `That's a good profession. Respectable.' Sarfraz Manzoor "Why do Asian writers have to be 'authentic' to succeed?", The Observer, 30 April 2006 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2010-03-05 18:12:29 Boxid IA112122 Boxid_2 CH129925 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0008 Donor

Sarfraz Manzoor arrived in Britain, aged three, in 1974 with his mother, brother and sister, to join his father in Bury Park, Luton, and it soon becomes clear that his struggle to balance being both a British and Pakistani Muslim was going to dominate his life. His father worked on the production line at Vauxhall along with the many other Asian immigrants who believed in hard work accompanied by strict traditional family values. Ironically, his father's aspiration to move to a white neighbourhood - for the educational betterment of his children - plays a significant role in shaping Manzoor's views on how to deal with life as a British Muslim. And, as so often, it is Springsteen who finds the words he needs: "Papa, now I know the things you wanted that you could not say, but won't you just say goodbye, it's independence day, I swear I never meant to take those things away." The lyrics to "Independence Day" express the teenager's yearning for progress and freedom. His subdued sense of rebellion appears, at this time, to spring from witnessing the pressures of arranged marriages on his elder sister Navela and brother Sohail. urn:lcp:greetingsfrombur00manz:epub:35586a13-5a2f-464f-8391-7320c6dfb570 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier greetingsfrombur00manz Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1hh7jb90 Isbn 9780307388025 Sarfraz Manzoor was just two years old when he emigrated to Britain from Pakistan in 1974. His father had worked in the country for over ten years and so for him, it was not only a new country, but a new family set up. Manzoor's family were the typically industrious Pakistani immigrant family - his father worked long hours on the Vauxhall production line in Luton. His mother sewed clothes at home and he and his siblings were expected to help. Life was all about work, work, work and money, money, money. And for the young Manzoor, it seemed there was an awful lot of work, but precious little money was spreading his way. In comparison with some of his white peers, he had few toys, no fashionable clothes and an authoritarian father. He resented these things a great deal. In a bid for mental escape, he developed an obsession with Americana and in particular with the music of Bruce Springsteen. The Boss' lyrics about individual grandeur in the lives of the little people made perfect sense to him.

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Quirky. . . . Brilliant. . . . Offers an interesting insight into the psyche of an avid fan.”— The Independent Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Ultimately, Manzoor is a true Springsteen devotee, and unashamedly a proud one. You may not share its perspective on the Boss, but Greetings from Bury Park vibrantly displays a modest and unpretentious sense of optimism, and offers the hope that by connecting with our own choices in music we can transcend cultural and generational differences to reach personal freedom without denying our need to belong.urn:oclc:861957370 Scandate 20111123131927 Scanner scribe2.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Source