Buddha mastermind ... Hanif Kureishi. Photograph: Sarah Lee
In this month's Guardian book club, John Mullan turns his attention to Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia.
Listen to the podcast of our latest book club event, in which Kureishi discusses the background to his exuberant coming-of-age story about "an Englishman born and bred, almost". The author discusses changing attitudes to race in Britain, plus what it took for him to become a writer after growing up in Bromley, south London in the 1960s and 70s.
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