For a relatively short novel, Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia is a big and unwieldy thing. The incendiary 1990 book teems with incident and ideas – an irreverent, orgiastic odyssey ...

But the book that made Kureishi a literary star was his debut novel, The Buddha of Suburbia, published in 1990. He joined The Book Show to discuss the story behind his much-loved novel.