Sachin kureishi the buddha
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The Buddha of Suburbia (novel)
1990 novel by Hanif Kureishi
The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) is a novel by British Pakistani author Hanif Kureishi, which won the Whitbread Award for the best first novel.
The novel has been translated into 20 languages and was also made into a four-part drama series by the BBC in 1993.
Plot
The Buddha of Suburbia is said[by whom?] to be very autobiographical.
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It is about Karim, a mixed-race teenager, who is desperate to escape suburban South London and to have new experiences in London in the 1970s. He eagerly seizes an unlikely opportunity when a life in the theatre presents itself as a possibility.
When there is nothing left for him to do in London, he goes to New York for ten months. Returning to London, he takes on a part in a TV soap opera and the book leaves its reader on the brink of the 1979 general election (the defeat of Jim Callaghan's government on a motion of no confidence is specifically mentioned later in the no