Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2011.
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2010.
Costa Book Awards 2010 Judges' comment: "A laugh-out-loud, toe-curlingly funny, coming-of-age book from a brilliant young British talent. By the end, you'll feel 'down with the kids'."
A Piece of Passion from the Editor of Coconut Unlimited:
Coconut Unlimited is one of the most exciting debut novels we’ve published. We’re so proud of Nikesh and thrilled he’s shortlisted for a prize with a proven track-record of picking only the very best first novels.
The Lovereading view:
This is a funny, rip-roaring adventure in the style of The Rotters’ Club and The Inbetweeners and a candid portrayal of what it means to be British, Asian and male.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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Coconut Unlimited follows the adventures of three hapless, hip-hop obsessed Asian boys in an all-white private school.It’s Harrow in the 1990s, and Amit, Anand and Nishant are stuck. Their peers think they’re a bunch of try-hard darkies, acting street and pretending to be cool, while their community thinks they’re rich toffs, a long way from the ‘real’ Asians in Southall. So, to keep it real, they form legendary hip-hop band ‘Coconut Unlimited’. Pity they can’t rap...From struggling to find records in the suburbs and rehearsing on rubbish equipment, to evading the clutches of disapproving parents and real life drug-dealing gangsters, Coconut Unlimited documents every teenage boy’s dream and the motivations behind it: being in a band to look pretty cool – oh, and to get girls...
Coconut Unlimited features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Sharing Diverse Voices, Debut Books of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Coconut Unlimited is available in Paperback
Coconut Unlimited was written by Nikesh Shukla and published by Quartet Books
