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The buddha of suburbia novel5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() After all pop music, too, turned - often hilariously - towards the Orient as a place of inspiration and nourishment due to the spiritual vacuum of the west - and it was this that I wanted to satirise, this placing of Asians. I wanted to explore the convolutions of liberals when it came to race. ![]() I was also fascinated by the radical politics of the 70s and became involved with the Workers Revolutionary party, the Communist party and the Socialist Workers party, mainly through my actor friends. It was an opportunity for me to find my voice as a prose writer. But also because it would be a direct method for me - by which I mean it wasn't mediated through a director or actors. I believed that the novel was the best place for this material as I'd really be able to stretch out and consider it properly. I felt that the period I'd lived through - the 1960s and 70s - was ready to be examined in terms of race, sex, fashion, drugs and music. Some of that I explored in My Beautiful Laundrette, but there was plenty left over that I wanted to say. My father was an immigrant, and my family lived through the first postwar transformation of Britain in terms of race. ![]()
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