BROWN BOYS IN CHOCOLATE
Paul Southern
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ISBN: 0-09-946119-6
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BROWN BOYS IN CHOCOLATE
Written by
PAUL
SOUTHERN
Life in the big city is harder on most than it is on others. In Paul
Southern’s dark and deeply absorbing novel, Brown
Boys In Chocolate, this truth has never been more clearly
defined.
When Rafi Rafiq and Richard Armitage leave their flat on Thursdays their
ambition stretches no further than their giros and the bookies. Bonded
from birth, blood cousins through school, failures in the hereafter, they
share everything: draw, food, fags, booze and vaginas, an unholy pentagram
of sleaze. Nowhere Rafi leads is out of bounds. Till now. He gets them
caught breaking into Manchester's first all-Asian brothel, Mohammed's
Butt's notorious nach ghar, and they're faced with a simple choice: pay
or die. But Richard's fallen in love - with Butt's favourite girl, Fari
- and decides they have to save her. And, for Rafi, it gets worse. The
Death Angel is back. 'Gorgeous George' Cotterel. On the lookout for starlets
to play in his latest video nasty, George knows just the thing that will
sell them. And just the way to get them. Brown boys in chocolate. When
Rafi and Richard answer a ringing phone in Manley Park, the combination
is far from their minds, but George has it all planned - and they find
themselves wrestling, literally, for their lives.
Exquisitely defined, Brown Boys In Chocolate
explores an area of society that is never explored by the media –
that racism, like any other argument, has two sides – and that
multi-culturalism is a long way off in the UK, no matter what the politicians
try to say.
Intense in its message, this is no politically correct hat-doffing exercise
towards what the author believes his readers want to hear. This is novel
riddled with experiences, smacking of enough bitterness, greed and envy
to make even the grittiest, dirtiest and greatest of novels about inner
city crime shudder.
Paul Southern’s second outing, following the success of The Craze, is a tribute to the author’s self-belief that what he is saying is true and that all those who say different, are merely in hiding.
“The only
true meaning in life is passion, and this site is a wonderful expression
of that. Chris High is in love with the words and music that express
it.”
Paul
Southern 2006
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