Hanif Kureishi

Broschiertes Buch

The Buddha of Suburbia

Beschreibung

Der junge Karim Amir, Sohn eines Inders und einer Engländerin, will dem kleinbürgerlichen Mief der Londoner Vorstadt, in der er mit seinen Eltern lebt, entfliehen. Da kommt es ihm gerade recht, daß sein Vater, ein biederer Büroangestellter, sich plötzlich zum Guru berufen fühlt und anfängt, Yoga-und Meditationskurse abzuhalten. Und als dann der Vater die Familie verläßt, um zu seiner exzentrischen Geliebten zu ziehen, geht Karim mit ihm. Für ihn beginnt nun ein Leben in der Londoner "Szene", eine Zeit der Experimente. "Das ist genau der Roman, den man von Hanif Kureishi erwartet hat: absolut respektlos, wild und unanständig, aber auch tief berührend und voller Wahrheit. Und sehr lustig." (Salman Rushdie.)

Autor

for film and released in 1998. Intimacy, his third novel, was published in 1998, and a film of the same title, based on the novel and other stories by the author, was released in 2001 and won the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival. His play Sleep With Me premièred at the Royal National Theatre in 1999. His second collection of stories, Midnight All Day, was published in 2000. Gabriel's Gift, his fourth novel, was published in 2001. The Body and Seven Stories and Dreaming and Scheming, a collection of essays, were published in 2002.

His screenplay The Mother was directed by Roger Michell and released in 2003. In 2004 he published his play When The Night Begins and a memoir, My Ear At His Heart. A second collection of essays, The Word and the Bomb, followed in 2005. His screenplay Venus was directed by Roger Michell in 2006. His novel Something to Tell You was published in 2008.
In July 2009 his adaptation of his novel, The Black Album, opened at the NationalTheatre, prior to a nation-wide tour. In 2010 his Collected Stories were published.

He has been awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres., Hanif Kureishi grew up in Kent and studied philosophy at King's College London. His novels include The Buddha of Suburbia, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, The Black Album, Intimacy and The Last Word. His screenplays include My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and Le Week-End. He has also published several collections of short stories. He has been awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and been translated into thirty six languages§

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• 1999.
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 177mm x 114mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 178g
• ISBN-13: 9780571200436
• ISBN-10: 0571200435
• Artikelnr.: 12874981