The Buddha of Suburbia, (Paperback)

from unsquare

An interesting story about a young man coming of age in 1970s suburban London - deals with issues of sexuality, class, and race. I enjoyed this book, but it seemed a bit fluffy somehow, even though it dealt with serious issues. Maybe I'll check out the TV miniseries version.

from joba

Very well written and entertaining book about a family who lives in England in the seventies, the mother in the family is English and the father is from Indien. Their sons are struggeling to find their place between two cultures. Kureishi describes the characters and their lives and the problems ...

from starbox

"I was looking for trouble, any kind of movement, action and sexual interest I could find" By sally tarbox on 29 August 2017 Format: Kindle Edition An entertaining tale of a young mixed-race Londoner - father a Muslim Indian, mother English- growing up in the 1970s. When his father is taken up by...

from girlunderglass

This is probably my first dab at what is generally being termed "post-colonial" writing. Karim, whose father is an Indian and his mother an Englishwoman, longs to escape the suburbs that shaped his childhood and go to London. And that he does, in the meantime attempting to rise up the social ladd...

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This novel, published in 1990 but set in the 1970s, offers a view of life, love and growing up by Karim Amir, a mixed raced teenaged son of an Asian father and English mother living in Beckenham in the south east London suburbs (in the borough of Bromley, next door to my own borough of Bexley). K...