Annal:1990 Whitbread Book Award for First Novel
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Results of the Whitbread Book Award in the year 1990. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1990 Whitbread-1st Novel winner
- Score: 10.4
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…
