Picking Up The Pieces

Dina Nayeri reviewed Shattered by Hanif Kureishi for the Guardian.

“In print and on screen, Kureishi is the author of many irreverent, funny stories about sex, drugs and coming of age. In The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), which won the Whitbread award for best first novel, he wrote unabashedly about the sexual ambitions and discoveries of a mixed race kid in London at the tail end of the 70s. Given the diet of shame most children of immigrants were fed back then, Buddha was groundbreaking. Nothing was too shocking for Kureishi, and that was what made his writing so exciting.”

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