![]() The neighbor, Eva, artistic and ambitious, becomes his father's mistress, and his father moves in with her. As the novel begins, Karim, still in high school accompanies his father to a neighbor's house, where, to Karim's surprise, his father lectures on Buddhism and demonstrates yoga. ![]() Karim's father, the Buddha of the title, is a handsome man of great charm who lightens the tedium of his clerk's job and suburban home-life by taking classes and reading. Karim is the son of an English woman and a Moslem from India, who had come to London to study the law but married instead. This remarkably fine first novel from the author of the screenplays My Beautiful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid is a freewheeling tour through the London of the 1970's-a London as vice- and class-ridden as that of a Hogarth engraving But the narrator, like that other 18th-century hero Tom Jones, relieves this bleakness with humor and sympathy. ![]()
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