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Novelists have noticed that contemporary reality keeps outdoing their imaginations

In this horror novel

The Buddha of Suburbia Jean-Christophe Grangé From the first sentence ofKarim lives with his Mum and Dad in a suburb of south London and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big city. But his father is no ordinary Dad, he is 'the buddha of suburbia', a strange and compelling figure whose powers of meditation hold a circle of would be mystics spellbound with the fascinations of the East. Among his disciples is the glamorous and ambitious Eva, and when 'the buddha of suburbia' runs off with her to a