Book 80: "The Buddha of Suburbia" by Hanif Kureishi
Monday, October 19th, 2009 12:49![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeHow does it happen? One day we're children, our faces are bright and open. We want to know how machines work. We are in love with polar bears. The next day we're throwing ourselves down the stairs, drunk and weeping. Our lives are over. We hate life and we hate death.
This is the story of Karim, the son of an Indian father and and an English mother, who comes of age in the 1970s. Moving between the city and the suburbs, Karim is able to be both socially and culturally more mobile than the older generation. I am a few years younger than Karim, so for me the book was full of nostalgia for the 1970s, and I loved it. This book was dramatised on television a long time ago, but although I remembered the that Karim's father was a guru and ran off with Karim's friend's hippy mother, I had forgotten how funny it is and I hardly remembered anything about what happened to the teenage characters.
This is the story of Karim, the son of an Indian father and and an English mother, who comes of age in the 1970s. Moving between the city and the suburbs, Karim is able to be both socially and culturally more mobile than the older generation. I am a few years younger than Karim, so for me the book was full of nostalgia for the 1970s, and I loved it. This book was dramatised on television a long time ago, but although I remembered the that Karim's father was a guru and ran off with Karim's friend's hippy mother, I had forgotten how funny it is and I hardly remembered anything about what happened to the teenage characters.
