Sachin kureishi the buddha



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