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The Elephanta Suite
by Paul Theroux
Binding: Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Emblem Editions
Weight: 0.55 pound
Dimension: H: 0.7 x L: 8.05 x W: 5.5 inches
ISBN 10: 0771085346
ISBN 13: 9780771085345
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Book Description:
A master of the travel narrative gives us three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India.

This startling and satisfying book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today s India. Paul Theroux s characters risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent s well worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A middle aged couple on vacation veers heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned up Boston lawyer finds succour in Mumbai s reeking slums. And a young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore.

In these pages, we also meet Indian characters as singular as they are indicative of the country s subtle ironies: an executive who yearns to become a holy beggar, an earnest young striver whose personality is rewired by acquiring an American accent, a miracle working guru, and more.

As ever, Theroux s portraits of people and places explode stereotypes to exhilarating effect. The Elephanta Suite urges us toward a fresh, compelling, and often inspiring notion of what India is, and what it can do to those who try to lose or find themselves there.

From the Hardcover edition.

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