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'Remarkable first novel
Christina Mercado longs to escape her Brooklyn tenement and dull job
off the Essex coast
A masterful epic of love
The writing moves from horror to humour with terrifying ease
The Buddha of Suburbia Granta 'Remarkable first novelKarim 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 spellbound with the fascinations of the East. Among his disciples is the glamorous and ambitious Eva, and when 'the buddha of suburbia' runs off with her to a
