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 | | He adored cricket, and named his son after the Pakistani player Hanif Mohammed: "Father and I fixed a cricket ball to a piece of string and tied it to the branch of an apple tree. |
 | | He showed Hanif how a dedicated writer worked, and passionately, obsessively, followed his literary dream, even as his son's career was taking off. |
 | | But the real drama is Hanif's reading of the texts, now, as a man in early middle age, and his painful response to the father who shaped his son in a career he so dearly wanted for himself. |
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