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At the turn of the century in a remote corner of India, an English civil servant and a reluctant Hindu bride cross paths during a cataclysmic rainstorm. Nine months later a boy is born. The astrologer's chart does not bode well... Pran Nath's startling whiteness is regarded as a sign of nobility, but when his true parentage is revealed, he is ejected from his father's house and begins a haphazard journey through the bizarre dark side of the British Empire. Sold to a pair of eunuchs, he is taken to a backwater state in the Punjab and becomes the bait in the dynastic intrigues of a dissolute Indian court. Escaping to Bombay, he reinvents himself as Pretty Bobby, prince of the red-light district, while around him the Raj slides into decadence and the slums seethe with political discontent. Then a chance encounter with a drunken Englishman leads to the most daring reinvention of all. Pran Nath becomes Jonathan Bridgeman, the perfect Englishman. As he travels across the world, from Bombay to London, from a mouldering Norfolk public school to Oxford and Paris, everyone sees him with a different eye. He blends in perfectly, until he finds himself part of an ill-fated anthropological expedition in West Africa, picking up the white man's burden for real. The Impressionist is a comic saga about history, identity and home. It is the epochal debut of an exceptional writer.
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The Impressionist, Hari Kunzru
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2002
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- Titolo
- The Impressionist
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Hari Kunzru
- Editore
- Hamish Hamilton
- Pubblicato
- 2002
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 481
- ISBN10
- 0241141699
- ISBN13
- 9780241141694
- Serie
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2002
- Titolo originale
- The Impresionist
- Valutazione
- 3,65 su 5
- Descrizione
- At the turn of the century in a remote corner of India, an English civil servant and a reluctant Hindu bride cross paths during a cataclysmic rainstorm. Nine months later a boy is born. The astrologer's chart does not bode well... Pran Nath's startling whiteness is regarded as a sign of nobility, but when his true parentage is revealed, he is ejected from his father's house and begins a haphazard journey through the bizarre dark side of the British Empire. Sold to a pair of eunuchs, he is taken to a backwater state in the Punjab and becomes the bait in the dynastic intrigues of a dissolute Indian court. Escaping to Bombay, he reinvents himself as Pretty Bobby, prince of the red-light district, while around him the Raj slides into decadence and the slums seethe with political discontent. Then a chance encounter with a drunken Englishman leads to the most daring reinvention of all. Pran Nath becomes Jonathan Bridgeman, the perfect Englishman. As he travels across the world, from Bombay to London, from a mouldering Norfolk public school to Oxford and Paris, everyone sees him with a different eye. He blends in perfectly, until he finds himself part of an ill-fated anthropological expedition in West Africa, picking up the white man's burden for real. The Impressionist is a comic saga about history, identity and home. It is the epochal debut of an exceptional writer.