Hanif Kureishi has returned to writing, or rather to dictating, after the fall that almost cost him his life in Rome last January. What began as a blog is forged in a book, Shattered, which will probably see the light this year.

The author of The Buddha of the Suburbs will tell in his style, openly, his new perspective on life at age 68. "We have entered a new era of censorship and self-censorship," says the author of Pakistani descent.