6/20/2023 0 Comments The buddha of suburbia![]() ![]() Karim Amir the protagonist is a boy with ambition but also ladled with plenty of emotional baggage. Our journey with Karim is at times chaotic and painful, but his many escapades into self-knowledge are an intense concoction of sex, drug use, friendship, love of pop music ,love of family, racism, immigration, classism, violence, self-doubt and most importantly dreams and aspirations. ![]() ![]() The core of the novel is about the maturation of a bi-racial boy living in the London suburbs during the 1970’s.It might be said that there are some autobiographical elements to the novel or that Hanif is drawing on his own experience of the time and extrapolating not only the personal concerns of an adolescent but also the outer political, social and cultural goings on of the times as well. His characters and their lives are multiplicities of excitement and drama and a testament to Hanif Kureishi’s fantastic imagination. His astute observations on life are always approachable. ![]() Hanif Kureishi is the master of illuminating contemporary urban madnesses with his hearty, often bawdy and witty brand of colloquial humor. Humor is the elixir that can take on the deepest darkest and most tragic or just plain testing aspects of human life and still make you want to keep on living. ![]()
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