Kureishi hanif the buddha of suburbia6/23/2023 His cultural identity issues are the old standards, and there are the usual accusations about British racism, and the whole book is too jolly long because so much of it is repetitive. His coming-of-age includes the discovery of sex with both boys and girls, and as the novel progresses the author’s attempts at titillation become more and more unsavoury. Set in the 1970s with incessant references to pop culture as if it matters, it tells the story of an inane young man called Karim who finds everything (school, his family, life &c) irrelevant and boring. It’s partly because the book is very dated. She found it funny too, but the humour passed me by. She tells us that as an adolescent she was thrilled to find filthy language in a book rather than on walls, and that she was excited to find her familiar Anglo-Indian world depicted in a novel. The introduction by Zadie Smith did little to enlighten me either. The Buddha of Suburbia is listed in 1001 Books You Much Read Before You Die, but I confess to complete bewilderment as to why it should be so.
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