What do you want if you are a semi-Indian living in the suburbs of London? If your father walks around the city in national clothes and , the Hindu Books , believes himself to be truly enlightened? If your first and only love is Charlie - the son of your stepmother? If life around you is a mad riot of colors, The Mahavishnu Orchestra , Are you a spiritual colorblind? Hanif Qureishi knows exactly the answers to all these questions. "Buddha of the Suburbs" is the story of a twenty-year-old Hindu living in London. Or is it the story of London, where a twenty-year-old Hindu lives? Which of them is a decoration, and who is an actor, is quite difficult to determine. The main character's mental throws take place in London in the 70s - in a separate world full of their gods and demons. He tries drugs and drinks exotic tea, listens to Pink Floyd, The Who and reads Kerouac. He begins to play in the theater, visiting with his half-brother Charlie, who became a superstar of punk, America. And at the same time, the main character (Karim) has no idea how to live further. Everything that was dear to him since childhood, left .. His family is destroyed, his closest friend - Jamila's cousin - married an incapacitated man who can only read detective novels and visit prostitutes. In the theater he is invited to the role of Mowgli.