Tuesday, February 10, 2009

The Budha of Suburbia

by Hanif Kureishi

An excerpt from the book describing the situation when the protagonist asks his father about the latter’s middle aged affair and his plan for the family that he was part of until then:

Confusion and anguish and fear clouded his face. I was sure he hadn’t thought much about any of this. It had all just happened in the random way things do Now it surprised him that he was expected to declare the pattern and intention behind it all in order that others could understand. But there wasn’t a plan, just passion and strong feeling which had ambushed him.

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