Paperback. Pub Date :2000-09-01 Pages: 69 Language: English Publisher: Faber & Faber Omar is a restless young Asian man. caring for his alcoholic father in the hustling London of the mid-1980s.His uncle. a keen Thatcherite . offers Omar an entrepreneurial opportunity to revamp a dingy laundrette. and ambitious Omar rolls up his sleeves. enlisting the assistance of his old school-friend Johnny. who has since fallen in with a gang of neo-fascists.Omar and Johnny soon form an unlikely alliance that leads to business success. as well as other. more intimate surprises.