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THE ROMANTICS - PANKAJ MISHRA KARTONIERT (TB)

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

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