Provides the screenplay to a British motion picture that tells the story of a young interracial couple who face complications when Sammy's father, a Third World government official, flees to England with a suitcase full of money

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

KUREISHI, HANIF

Humor & Entertainment

Penguin Group USA

Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban London, enduring his teenage years with good humor, always on the lookout for adventure—and sexual possibilities. Life gets more interesting, however, when his father becomes the Buddha of Suburbia, beguiling a circle of would-be mystics. And when the Buddha falls in love with one of his disciples, the beautiful and brazen Eva, Karim is introduced to a world of renegade theater directors, punk rock stars, fancy parties, and all the sex a young man could desire. A love story for at least two generations, a high-spirited comedy of sexual manners and social turmoil, The Buddha of Suburbia is one of the most enchanting, provocative, and original books to appear in years.

The Buddha of Suburbia

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Penguin??Books

Hanif Kureishi already has introduced Americans to new fictional territory in his two films, My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, and in his novel, The Buddha of Suburbia. His latest screenplay, London Kills Me, which he describes as "a story about two guys looking for these shoes," returns viewers and readers to London streetlife and culture that only Kureishi could reveal. This collection includes his three screenplays as well as essays about the background of each film or life on the set or the hilarity of the Academy Awards in Hollywood. In addition, Kureishi has written about the Beatles--a comic commentary on class and culture in England. Together these essays and screenplays illuminate the remarkable imagination and wit of an extraordinarily acute and irreverent social analyst who has secured his place at the forefront of both the film and literary worlds with his uniquely recognizable voice.

London Kills Me

Dramas & Plays

Stuck in a lackluster community college after a less-than-ideal high-school career, a music-loving Shadid Hasan strives to impress two incompatible camps--his conservative Muslim neighbors and radical lecturer Deedee Osgood. Read by Zubin Varla. Book available.

Black Album (Audio, Faber)

Penguin Audio

very good copy in very good DJ, Not Clipped. Tanned edge, esp. to top edge

The buddha of suburbia

Faber and Faber

The winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel 1990, this is the story of Karim Amir, "an Englishman born and bred - almost", who lives with his English mother and Indian father in the South London suburbs. It is written by the author of "My Beautiful Launderette" and "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid".

Contemporary

Faber&Faber

Set in London in 1989, the year of the fatwah and the fall of the Berlin Wall, this is a thriller with a background of raves, ecstasy, religious ferment and sexual passion. By the author of The Buddha of Suburbia and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid.

The Black Album

FABER. LONDON 1995

In 1981 Hanif Kureishi was voted the Most Promising Playwright of the Year by the London Theatre Critics for his plays "Borderline" and "Outskirts". This selection of original works shows his development as a writer finding his own subject matter and establishing his characteristically powerful style, before moving into films with "My Beautiful Laundrette". This examination of Kureishi's work looks at it from the author's own experience and from the perspective of the radical British theatre of the 1970s.

Outskirts and Other Plays: The King and Me/Outskirts/Borderline/Birds of Passage

New York: Penguin

Whitbread Prize winner Kureshi is one of a new generation of British writers whose experience is refracted through his Pakistani heritage. These collected screenplays and essays also include "My Son the Fanatic".

My Beautiful Launderette and other writings

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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

The Buddha of Suburbia

London Kills Me

Black Album (Audio, Faber)

The buddha of suburbia

The Buddha of Suburbia

The Black Album

Outskirts and Other Plays: The King and Me/Outskirts/Borderline/Birds of Passage

London Kills Me

My Beautiful Launderette and other writings