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Hanif Kureishi

Author of The Buddha of Suburbia

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About the Author

Hanif Kureishi won England's prestigious Whitbread Prize for his first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia. His screenplays include Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. His other works include the novels The Black Album and show more Gabriel's Gift and the short story collection Love in a Blue Time. He lives in London. (Publisher Fact Sheets) show less
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Works by Hanif Kureishi

The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) — Author — 2,968 copies
Intimacy (1998) 861 copies
The Black Album (1995) 802 copies
Something to Tell You (2008) 531 copies
Gabriel's Gift (2001) 503 copies
Love in a Blue Time (1997) 363 copies
Midnight All Day (1999) 311 copies
The Body (2002) 297 copies
The Last Word (2014) 159 copies
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) — Author — 148 copies
My Ear at His Heart (2004) 137 copies
The Nothing (2017) 99 copies
The Faber Book of Pop (1995) — Editor — 96 copies
My Beautiful Laundrette [1985 film] (1985) — Screenwriter — 82 copies
London Kills Me (1991) 75 copies
Collected Stories (2010) 73 copies
My Son the Fanatic (1997) 41 copies
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1988) 34 copies
Venus [2006 film] (2006) — Writer — 32 copies
The Word and the Bomb (1656) 31 copies
Soccer 365 Days (2006) 22 copies
Collected Essays (2011) 19 copies
Intimacy [2001 film] (2002) — Writer — 16 copies
The "Mother" (2003) 14 copies
What Happened? (2019) 13 copies
Sleep With Me (1999) 10 copies
Long Ago Yesterday (2006) 6 copies
A Theft: My Con Man (2014) 6 copies
Outskirts (Playscript) (1983) 5 copies
Yakinlik (2015) 4 copies
Coccinelle a pranzo (1997) 3 copies
London kills 2 copies
Racconti (2013) 2 copies
Vucut (2005) 2 copies
Eimiski (2017) 2 copies
Que s'est-il passé ? (2023) 2 copies
Kara Plak 1 copy
Ništa 1 copy
Un furto (2015) 1 copy
Tutti i racconti (2011) 1 copy
When the Night Begins (2004) 1 copy

Associated Works

Telling Tales (2004) — Contributor — 344 copies
Granta 65: London (1999) — Contributor — 222 copies
Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists 2 (1993) — Contributor — 177 copies
Granta 20: In Trouble Again (1986) — Contributor — 131 copies
Granta 22: With Your Tongue Down My Throat (1987) — Contributor — 129 copies
Granta 69: The Assassin (2000) — Contributor — 126 copies
Granta 56: What Happened to Us? (1996) — Contributor — 125 copies
Granta 39: The Body (1992) — Contributor — 105 copies
Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers (2004) — Contributor — 99 copies
Ox-Tales: Earth (2009) — Contributor — 85 copies
Granta 17: While Waiting for a War (1985) — Contributor — 80 copies
The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease (2008) — Contributor — 52 copies
Granta 146: The Politics of Feeling (2019) — Contributor — 51 copies
War With No End (2007) — Contributor — 37 copies
The Bedside Guardian 2018 (2018) — Contributor — 12 copies
Best British Short Stories 2020 (2020) — Contributor — 11 copies
The National Short Story Prize 2007 (2007) — Author — 10 copies
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid [1987 film] (1987) — Writer — 5 copies
Red: The Waterstones Anthology (2012) — Contributor — 5 copies
Hebbes 2 : 15 smaakmakers voor het voorjaar — Contributor — 3 copies

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Reason read: This was my TBR takedown from the 1001 list for March. It is the first book that I have read by this author. He is a British Pakistani author and the story is said to autobiographical. It is the coming of age of a mixed race boy who is growing up in Britain. He is British. His father is Indian and his mother is British.
I think the author did a good job of writing though I could have done without all the sexual explicit details that was included. It reads like a novel, not a lecture or a book that is trying to get all the right t's crossed.… (more)
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Kristelh | 53 other reviews | Mar 9, 2024 |
I read this for my Modern British Lit class in college. I must say, I remember liking it, but I also remember feeling very awkward talking about it in class because of all the sex.
 
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LibrarianDest | 53 other reviews | Jan 3, 2024 |
Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid-1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by Hanif Kureishi, who was soon to be an internationally renowned writer, Frears tells an uncommon love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role) who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism that dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher’s England.
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aptrvideo | 1 other review | Sep 19, 2023 |
Not nearly as comic and provocative as I had hoped it to be. While the beginning had merit, this book went in a direction that was unexpected and not nearly as fun as the first part which is about the "Buddha of suburbia." Rathe than focus on the Buddha, the story focused on his son - a not very interesting character who wanders aimlessly through his life in London, New Your, and back again in London. There are supporting characters/caricatures of Indians living in London who add some comic relief.… (more)
 
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Kimberlyhi | 53 other reviews | Apr 15, 2023 |

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