Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban London, enduring his teenage years with good humor, always on the lookout for adventure - and sexual possibilities. Life gets more interesting, however, when his father becomes the Buddha of Suburbia, begui[...]

The protagonist of this novel is a 15-year-old North London schoolboy called Gabriel. He is forced to come to terms with a new life, and use his gift for painting in order to make sense of his world, once the equilibrium of the family has been shattered by his father's departure.[...]

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 spellboun[...]

This collection begins in the early 1980s with "The Rainbow Sign," which was written as the Introduction to the screenplay of "My Beautiful Laundrette." It allowed Kureishi to expand upon the issues raised by the film: race, class, sexuality - issues that were provoked by his childhood and family si[...]

Harry, a young writer, is commissioned to write a biography to revitalise both Mamoon's career and his bank balance. Harry greatly admires Mamoon's work and wants to uncover the truth of the artist's life. Harry's publisher seeks a more naked truth, a salacious tale of sex and scandal that will gene[...]

Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England - but now, in his early 70s, his reputation is fading, sales have dried up, and his new wife has expensive taste. Harry, a young writer, is commissioned to write a biography to revitalise both Mamoon's career and his bank balan[...]

Tells the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of author's acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka's relationship with his father, readers will find Kureishi also exploring the topics that he continues to make new, and make his own.[...]

This provocative collection of short stories charts the growth of a generation from the liberating irreverence of the late 1970s to the dilemmas of responsibility and fidelity of the 1990s. The stories resonate with Hanif Kureishi's dead-on observations of human passion and folly, his brilliant depi[...]

"Hanif Kureishi's best novel since "The Buddha of Suburbia"" ("The Independent," UK): a mischievous, wickedly funny, and intellectually deft story about a young biographer and the famous and reclusive novelist who is his subject.
Mamoon Azam is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career[...]

Mitt namn är Karim Amir och jag är äkta engelsman, eller närapå. Jag betraktas ofta som en kufisk slags engelsman, en helt ny art liksom, eftersom jag härstammar från två urgamla kulturer. Men det gör detsamma - engelsman är vad jag är (om än inte så stolt över det), från södra Londo[...]