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 ...

The British author reflects on a literary career that began with The Buddha of Suburbia, his smash-hit portrait of race, sex and class in 1970s London.

Comic drama based on the novel by Hanif Kureishi following the life of 17-year-old Karim as he looks for trouble, action and sex in the south London suburbs of the 1970s.

Naveen Andrews starring in the 1993 TV adaptation of Buddha of Suburbia A large part of Kureishi’s writing has dealt with sex and intimacy, from the sexual liberation in The Buddha of Suburbia ...