Plume. As New with no dust jacket. 2002. Trade Paperback. 0452283973 . Trade Paperback in As New condition, tight, bright, looks unread. A tiny bit of wear to the back cover bottom spine hinge. "Sweeping from India to England to France and Africa and played out on a teeming world canvas, "The Impressionist" is the unforgettable riches-to-rags story of a boy who is born into a lie and must adapt--or perish. Sweeping from India to England to France and Africa and played out on a teeming world canvas, "The Impressionist" is the unforgettable riches-to-rags story of a boy who is born into a lie and must adapt--or perish. ". ; 1.2 x 7.9 x 5.3 Inches; 465 pages .

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Pran Nath Razdan, the boy who will become the Impressionist, was passed off by his Indian mother as the child of her husband, a wealthy man of a high caste. Pran lived a life of luxury just downriver from the Taj Mahal, but at fifteen, the news of Pran’s true parentage is revealed to his father and he is tossed out into the street—a pariah and an outcast. Thus begins an extraordinary, near mythical journey of a young man who must reinvent himself to survive—not once, but many times. From Victorian India to Edwardian London, from an expatriate community of black Americans in Paris to a hopeless expedition to study a lost tribe of Africa, Hari Kunzru’s unforgettable debut novel dazzles with its artistry and wit while it challenges with its insights into what it means to be Indian or English, black or white, and every degree that lies between.

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Bookseller: Bytown Bookery (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9478
Title: Impressionist, The
Author: Kunzru, Hari
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: New As New with no dust jacket
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0452283973
ISBN 13: 9780452283978
Publisher: Plume
Place of Publication: New York, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published: 2002
Keywords: 0452283973, Racially Mixed People
Bookseller catalogs: India;

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