![]() Karim has Marc Bolan posters on his wall and favours the "tuneless" musical meanderings of King Crimson and Captain Beefheart. "Kevin Ayers, who had been with Soft Machine, was sitting on a stool whispering into a microphone." His father, who is contemplating adultery, is moodily oblivious. ![]() Changing buses on the way to a party with the alluring Eva Kay, Karim stops off with his father at a pub in Beckenham. The brilliant cover of the paperback edition is a Peter Blake pop art collage and mid-70s pop culture is everywhere. Hanif Kureishi's narrator, Karim Amir, fills his narrative of teenage misadventure with allusions to music and films and books. ![]() ![]() "C ulture is ordinary" was an article of faith announced by the critic Raymond Williams, and The Buddha of Suburbia seems to illustrate it. ![]()
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