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The Buddha of Suburbia

The Buddha of Suburbia

Author(s): Hanif Kureishi

Location(s): London

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1970s

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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 . . .

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This book utterly captures the zeitgeist of 70s London – to wit Bromley and the angst of a young man finding out what really matters to him.

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