April 7, 2007
Pakistan-born British journalist Sarfraz Manzoor’s debut book, Greetings from Bury Park, about growing up in a working-class Luton neighborhood, has been sold to the United States for publication. It is already being published in Britain in June by Vintage.
In the book Sarfraz describes how the discovery of Bruce Springsteen’s music and a determination to live a non-traditional Muslim life galvanized him to seek out possibilities other than those acceptable to his family and by his culture. It will be published in the US by Vintage and in the UK by Bloomsbury.
He told AIM magazine: “I was really pleased and surprised to see my book - which is quite British in its tone and content - being picked up by Vintage but they really loved it and think it could do really well in the States which is both great for me but also in terms of projecting a very different image of British Muslims to the US.”