The Romantics (novel)
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| Author | Pankaj Mishra |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Raghubir Singh |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
| Publisher | Picador |
Publication date | 1999 |
| Publication place | India, UK |
| Pages | 277 |
| ISBN | 0-330-39277-8 |
| OCLC | 59510102 |
The Romantics (1999) is the debut novel of Pankaj Mishra, the author of Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India (1995), An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World (2004) and Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond (2006). The Romantics is an ironic tale of people longing for fulfillment in cultures other than their own. It was published in eleven European languages and won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.[1]
Samar, the young narrator of The Romantics, arrives at a boarding house in the holy city of Benaras, an ancient city trying to cope with modern India. There he hopes to lose himself in books and solitude, but, far from offering him an undistracted existence, the city forces all his silent desires into the light. Although this novels depicts the interaction of two culture such as east and west. the protagonist is highly attracted towards the glamour of western that comes to novel as being in contact with Catherine.