The Impressionist

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'Epic in scale and rich in historical detail, the narrative is deft and swift carrying the reader along effortlessly; This first novel has startling depth, atnbition ancl craftsmanship' Time Out
'Exhilarating' India Today
'Marvellous, original and intelligent. Kunzru writes like a master storyteller' Literary Kevieiu
'Delectable, sweeping, empire-savaging, audaciously playful Kunzru writes with wry certitude i and cinematic precision' ¦ The New York Times
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'Bold, brilliant. Kunzru is clearly blessed 5 with a whole armoury of talents - he's ^ funny, he can do rude, he can do graceful and with The Impressionist they're all deployed to spectacular effect' ' Arena
In'India, at the birth of the last century, an infant is brought howling into the world, his remarkable paleness marking him out from his brown-skinned fellows. Revered at first, he is later cast out from his wealthy home when his true parentage is revealed. So begins Pran Nath's odyssey of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

F
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'Epic in scale and rich in historical detail, the narrative is deft and swift carrying the reader along effortlessly; This first novel has startling depth, atnbition ancl craftsmanship' Time Out
'Exhilarating' India Today
'Marvellous, original and intelligent. Kunzru writes like a master storyteller' Literary Kevieiu
'Delectable, sweeping, empire-savaging, audaciously playful Kunzru writes with wry certitude i and cinematic precision' ¦ The New York Times
' - '' "V ¦
'Bold, brilliant. Kunzru is clearly blessed 5 with a whole armoury of talents - he's ^ funny, he can do rude, he can do graceful and with The Impressionist they're all deployed to spectacular effect' ' Arena
In'India, at the birth of the last century, an infant is brought howling into the world, his remarkable paleness marking him out from his brown-skinned fellows. Revered at first, he is later cast out from his wealthy home when his true parentage is revealed. So begins Pran Nath's odyssey of self-discovery - a journey that will take him from the streets of Agra, via the red light district, of Bombay, to the brick cloisters of Oxford and beyond - as he struggles to understand who he really is.
'Grand, sprawling, extravagant, lyrical. , A work so vibrant and richly imagined - that you can smell the incense' Esquire ___
Penguin Fiction
Mark IV-nniiniton
9780141008288 Vissza