The Buddha of Suburbia

About The Buddha of Suburbia

Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) follows Karim Amir, half-English half-Indian, growing up in South London in the late 1970s and navigating race, class, sexuality, and the theatre as he works his way from Bromley to the West End. One of the defining novels of British South Asian identity and a bildungsroman of extraordinary confidence and wit.