This is not to sayMad and Furiousalways works.
Hes fascinated by the experience of alienation, interrogating processes of radicalization with sympathy and surprising fatalism.
His rendering, violent and pointed as it may be, brims with empathy.

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Theres also a sort of experimental ambition here.
Dialogue and slang are employed generously, near-imposingly specific to the North London milieu.
Their sections permeate a distance, relative to the main trio, widening the novels scope.
Gunaratne calls for understanding.