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Book Description
here's quite a bit of activity in Buddha of Suburbia. A bureaucrat becomes a suburban guru who marries a follower with a son who's a punk rocker named Charlie Hero. Consequently, the guru's son is propelled from his bland life into a series of erotic experiences in London. All the while, Hanif KureiContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sun, 26 Sep 2010
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Race ahead
From 1979 to 1984, I worked mostly in the theatre - at the Royal Court, the Soho Poly and the RSC. Then from 1984 to 1987 I wrote the films My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid for Channel 4. This made me a bit of money which meant th ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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This book and me
I am in love with this book. I think it's shameful how Hanif Kureishi went from writing this wonderful book, to an OK book like the Black Album (his second novel) to a long string of novels that really did not even stick in memory. Maybe this is one of those cases where good is in the eye of the beh ... (continue)
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Identity Crisis
One of my absolute favourites. This novel questions everything society uses to define people, and everything we use to define ourselves: race, class, gender, sexuality. These things, so often polarised, are instead placed on a spectrum: a person is not Indian or English, upper or lower class, gay or ... (continue)
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- English Books
- Paperback 284 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0571200435
- ISBN-13: 9780571200436
- Publisher: Faber Paperbacks
- Pub date: Jun 01, 2000
- Dimensions: 1097 mm x 710 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780571200436 | Paperback | $22.01 | $8.27 | The Book Depository |
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A buddy from suburbia
'I am an Englishman born and bred, almost,' Karim Amir's opening declaration in The Buddha Of Suburbia, finds an echo in Hanif Kureishi's new novel, The Black Album. When its hero Shahid Hasan is embraced by an Asian Muslim as a 'fellow countryman', ... (read full critics)