Product Description
The Romantics
Author: Pankaj Mishra
Format: Paperback
With a New Introduction by the Author
'If you buy one literary novel this year, make sure it's this' — The Times
'The Romantics looks to Flaubert's Sentimental Education, to E.M. Forster, to Turgenev. But it is the product of a distinctive and sharp intelligence' — Hilary Mantel
'Grips the reader as artfully and as compellingly as the first page of A Passage to India' — The New York Review of Books
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
1989. In the holy city of Varanasi, 19-year-old Samar rents a room to avoid a small-town job and lose himself in reading about worlds outside of India. But when he is thrust into local a circle of privileged European and American expats, led by the charismatic Miss West, Samar will soon face his own silent desires and crumbling beliefs.
'A work of art' — Financial Times
'A supernova' — The Washington Post
'A charming debut' — The Independent
About the Author
Pankaj Mishra's books include The Romantics, which won the LA Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for fiction, Age of Anger and From the Ruins of Empire. He contributes political and literary essays to the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.
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