In order to fully grasp the element of music within the book it will be necessary to have a wider look on the phenomenon first. This paper is intended to examine the element of music and attempts to determine the role it plays within the world Kureishi illustrates. However, one element seems to be of peculiar importance in its reoccurring implementation within the story – music. The author masterfully depicts the multiple cultural facets this time had to offer and creates a plot replete with stories of ethnicity, class and gender. It´s protagonist, Karim, takes the reader on his riveting journey to discover and explain life of the seventies in and around London. Issued in 1990 Hanif Kureishi´s novel The Buddha of Suburbia has become a world-acclaimed masterpiece ever since. His works have been translated into 36 languages.5 Charlie, Music and the Quest for Self-Fulfilment for his services to literature, and the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts des Lettres in France. The memoir My Ear at his Heart: Reading my Father appeared in 2004.
He has also written non-fiction, including the essay collections Dreaming and Scheming: Reflections on Writing and Politics (2002) and The Word and the Bomb (2005). His collection of stories and essays Love + Hate was published by Faber & Faber in 2015.
These all appear in his Collected Stories (2010), together with eight new stories. His first collection of short stories, Love in a Blue Time, appeared in 1997, followed by Midnight All Day (1999) and The Body (2002). Gabriel’s Gift was published in 2001, Something to Tell You in 2008 and The Last Word in 2014.
The next, Intimacy (1998), was adapted as a film in 2001, winning the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film festival. His second novel was The Black Album (1995). The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel and was produced as a four-part drama for the BBC in 1993.
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