- Literature, East Indians, Fathers and sons, Fiction
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.
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Classical in form, prestige, contemporary and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Hanif Kureishi, Eli Hirsch
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Faber Paperbacks, Chivers Audio Books, FABER AND FABER
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- German, French, Russian, hrv
- ISBN
- 9782264018199
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