![]() ![]() "I remember at that time thinking, wow, I really want to be like Karim - he's absolutely amazing". Karim may officially be an anti-hero, but to this reader he was more like a role model. The reader had played Karim's younger brother Amar, an aspiring ballet dancer who wears red silk pyjamas, a smoking jacket and a hair-net in bed. Of course they were talking about the TV version of the novel, which Kureishi had already roundly declared he had "loved" (not least for bringing alive all the music that sounds through the book). "Yeah, I remember you," said the novelist. "I was lucky enough to be part of The Buddha of Suburbia," began the questioner. When Hanif Kureishi came to discuss his first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia, he encountered one reader whose life had certainly been altered by the story that he had written. S ometimes the Guardian book club attracts readers with special expertise. ![]()
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