Month / June 2013

Cover image of The Buddha of Suburbia
by The Booker Tea

The Buddha of Suburbia

Cover image of The Buddha of SuburbiaISBN: 9780571244782
Published: 07.05.2009
No of pages: 288

Karim lives with his Mum and Dad in a suburb of south London and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big city. But his father is no ordinary Dad, he is “the buddha of suburbia,” a strange and compelling figure whose powers of meditation hold a circle of would-be mystics spellbound with the fascinations of the East.

Among his disciples is the glamorous and ambitious Eva, and when “the buddha of suburbia” runs off with her to a crumbling flat in Barons Court, Karim’s life becomes changed in ways that even he had never dreamed of . . .

The Buddha of Suburbia , Hanif Kureishi’s first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention, a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the life of a young Pakistani growing up in 1970s Britain.

About the author

Hanif Kureishi is the author of novels (including The Buddha of Suburbia, The Black Album and Intimacy), story collections (Love in a Blue Time, Midnight All Day, The Body), plays (including Outskirts, Borderline and Sleep With Me), and screenplays (including My Beautiful Laundrette, My Son the Fanatic and Venus). Among his other publications are the collection of essays Dreaming and Scheming, The Word and the Bomb and the memoir My Ear at His Heart.

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