MULTICULTURALISM, GENDER AND IDENTITY IN HANIF KUREISHI’S THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA
MULTICULTURALISM, GENDER AND IDENTITY IN HANIF KUREISHI’S THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA

Summary/Abstract: "The novel is set in London in the 1970s and centres around Karim Amir, a seventeen year-old Indo-British teenager. “His English mother and Indian father’s marriage is rapidly disintegrating. His father’s escape from this disaster is to become the ‘Buddha of Suburbia’, mouthing trite Indian spiritual sayings for desperate middle aged suburban housewives and the like. When dad and one of his ‘disciples’ become romantically involved, Karim is introduced into the whirlwind of London punk social life and then thoroughly swept along in the tide, ultimately achieving a measure of true personal success as all around him flounder in overindulgent self-indulgence.” (http://www.amazon.com/Buddha-Suburbia- Hanif-Kureishi/dp/014013168X) "[...]

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