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‘The Buddha of Suburbia': Emma Rice on Working With Hanif Kureishi to Make His Iconic 1970s-Set Novel Relevant to Modern Theater Audiences
The Royal Shakespeare Company's theater adaptation of "The Buddha of Suburbia" had hard acts to follow, coming after an acclaimed novel and TV series. Hanif Kureishi's Whitbread Award-winning 1990 ...
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The Buddha of Suburbia review: Hanif Kureishi’s sexy debut novel is full of energy on stage
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 ...
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The Buddha of Suburbia
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.