The Romantics
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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
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
A sensitive and introspective novel . . . a meditation on hope and failure. Mishra's evocations of Indian landscape and customs are vivid and thoughtful; his prose clean and unhampered and his descriptive passages to be savoured
Contemporary India is brought to vigorous, thrumming life in the pages of
The Romantics
If you buy one literary novel this year, make sure it's this
This bright new star is the real thing
[A]n intriguing combination of casual grace and emotional intensity, peppered with discreet social comment on caste, class, sectarian strife, the state of the nation . . . a charming debut
A work of art, a first novel of the highest achievement...a writer whose work will last. Read it and find yourself at the source of something great
A first novel of astonishing maturity
[An] extraordinary debut novel . . . a supernova
Mishra's lyrical descriptions . . . and the depth of culture the region offers, is a haunting reminder of India's power to bewitch
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.