num_pages: 284
description: A bureaucrat becomes a suburban guru who marries a follower with a son who's a punk rocker named Charlie Hero. Consequently, the guru's son is propelled from his bland life into a series of erotic experiences in London.Cover Illustration by Peter Blake
language: English
title: The Buddha of Suburbia
titlecomplete: The Buddha of Suburbia
characters: Karim Amir
genres: British Literature, LGBT, India, Contemporary, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Coming Of Age, Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 18293
places: United Kingdom, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel
publisher: Faber and Faber