Nicholas Lezard

What Hanif Kureishi learned from being robbed by his accountant

In A Theft: My Con Man, the author Hanif Kureishi describes how his trusted friend and accountant swindled him out of a fortune

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  • A Theft: My Con Man

    Hanif Kureishi

    Faber, pp. 44

Have you ever met a sane accountant? I ask, because one of the more striking sentences in A Theft runs: ‘Long before this, though, and long before I learned that the insane, these days, might disguise themselves as money experts, I had heard that no one had met a sane accountant.’

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