Read by Christopher Simpson

The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi's first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention,
a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the life of a young Pakistani
growing up in 1970s Britain. Karim 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 crumbling flat in Barons Court, Karim's life becomes changed in ways
that even he had never dreamed of . . .

The reader

Christopher Simpson's diverse array of roles swings from a Banglatown youth in Sarah Gavron's
'Brick Lane' to a Leeds drug dealer in Penny Woolcock's 'Mischief Night'. In television, he
is best known for playing polar opposites in the double role of twins Magid/Milat in 'White
Teeth'. Other television includes 'State of Play' and 'Second Generation'. Theatre projects
range from playing the lead, Dionysus in .The Bacchae of Baghdad. at the Abbey, Dublin to the
Song Cycle .Very Present Tense. which he wrote and performed at Edgehill Station in Liverpool
this August. Other film work this year includes Dublin set feature, 'Little Foxes' by award-
winning Czech film maker Mira Fornayova.

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