by Hanif Kureishi · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571245871
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«The Buddha of Suburbia» is Hanif Kureishi's coming-of-age novel, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Karim lives with his parents in a south London suburb and longs to escape to the big city. His father, «the buddha of suburbia», keeps a circle of would-be mystics spellbound with Eastern wisdom. When the buddha runs off with the ambitious Eva to a flat in Barons Court, Karim's life changes and pushes him towards theatre.
Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel in 1990 and originally published that same year. The BBC adapted the novel as a four-episode series in 1993.
For readers of contemporary British fiction and coming-of-age novels, with 1970s London as the setting.
Hanif Kureishi is a British playwright, screenwriter and novelist.
