Gabriel's father, a washed-up rock musician, has been chucked out of the house by Gabriel's mother, who works nights and sleeps days. Lonely Gabriel finds solace in a mysterious connection to his deceased twin, Archie, and in his gift for producing real objects simply by drawing them. Then a chance visit with rock star Lester Jones, his father's former band mate, provides Gabriel with a tool that might help mend his family. All he has to do is figure out how to use it. Hanif Kureishi portrays Gabriel's naive hope and artistic aspirations with the same insight that he brought to the Anglo-Indian experience in The Buddha of Suburbia and to infidelity in Intimacy. Gabriel's Gift is a tender meditation on failure, talent, and the power of imagination, and offers a humorous portrait of a generation that only started to think about growing up when its children did.

哈尼夫·庫雷西(Hanif Kureishi) 巴基斯坦移民後裔，1954年齣生於英國肯特郡，大學主修哲學。他多纔多藝，作品包括舞颱劇本、小說、廣播劇及電視電影劇本等，亦為電影導演。是繼薩爾曼·拉什迪之後在世界文壇成就重大影響的亞裔作傢 1985年創作電影劇本《我美麗的洗衣店》(MyBeautifulLaundrette)，獲1986年奧斯卡金像奬最佳電影劇本提名；1991年執導電影《倫敦殺瞭我》(London Kills Me)。在2004年上海國際電影節上，展影瞭其編劇的影片《母親》。 1990年以首部小說《郊區佛爺》(TheBuddhaofSuburbia)獲Whitebread文學奬。其後陸續推齣小說《黑色唱片》(The Black Album，1995)、《愛在藍色時代》(Lovein aBlueTime，1997)、《親密》(Intimacy,1997)，《整日午夜》(Midnight All Day,1999)、《加百列的禮物》(Gabriel’SGift，2001)，迅速躍升為歐洲文壇新巨星。根據其小說改編的電影《親密》獲2001年柏林電影節金熊奬。他的最新長篇小說為2004年齣版的《身體》(The Body)。 庫雷西深受流行文化的影響。早期作品中的幽默反諷享譽世界，近作對情欲與兩性衝突的探討充滿瞭動人的深情。庫雷西以其幽默、脫俗，前衛被認作是當今世界文壇最富魅力的傑齣作傢之一。