The Buddha of suburbia

Description:

Karim lives with his Mum and Dad in a suburb of south London and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big city. But his father is no ordinary Dad, he is 'the buddha of suburbia', a strange and compelling figure whose powers of meditation hold a circle of would-be mystics spellbound with the fascinations of the East. Among his disciples is the glamorous and ambitious Eva, and when 'the buddha of suburbia' runs off with her to a crumbling flat in Barons Court, Karim's life becomes changed in ways that even he had never dreamed of . . .

subjects: Literature,  East Indians,  Fathers and sons,  Fiction,  Boys,  Romans (teksten),  open_syllabus_project,  Fiction, coming of age,  Fiction, family life,  Fathers and sons, fiction,  London (england), fiction,  Fiction, family life, general,  World literature,  Fiction subjects,  Minority teenagers -- England -- London -- Fiction,  Pakistanis -- England -- London -- Fiction,  Adolescents issus des minorités -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Romans, nouvelles, etc,  Pakistanais -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Romans, nouvelles, etc,  Minority teenagers,  Pakistanis,  Race relations,  London (England) -- Race relations -- Fiction,  England -- London,  Fiction, erotica, general

Places: England,  London (England)