The Buddha of Suburbia review: Hanif Kureishi’s sexy debut novel is full of energy on stage

For a relatively short novel, ’s is a big and unwieldy thing. The incendiary 1990 book teems with incident and ideas – an irreverent, orgiastic odyssey following Karim, a mixed-race bisexual teenager, from his fraught family life in the 1970s suburbs to the London stage, and then to the druggy excess of New York. It’s hard to imagine how everything could fit into the, part of the inaugural season of new co-artistic directors , I’m still not sure it can.