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Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140131680ISBN-10:014013168XUPC:9780140131680Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, SagasSize:7.82 x 5.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCV9XECPA0
The Buddha of Suburbia
Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel "There was one copy going round our school like contraband. I read it in one sitting ... I'd never read a book about anyone remotely like me before."-- Zadie Smith "My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost..." The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is dreamy teenager Karim, desperate to escape suburban South London...
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140131680ISBN-10:014013168XUPC:9780140131680Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, SagasSize:7.82 x 5.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCV9XECPA0
Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent. He read philosophy at King's College, London. In 1981 he won the George Devine Award for his plays Outskirts and Borderline, and in 1982 he was appointed Writer-in-Residence at the Royal Court Theatre. In 1984 he wrote My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. His second screenplay Sammy and Rosie Get Laid...
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