# The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra (Paperback)

**'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.  
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**'A work of art'** _Financial Times_  
**'A supernova'** _The Washington Post_  
**'A charming debut'** _The Independent_

## Details

- **Price:** 8.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Penguin Random House
- **Tags:** All Books, Romance

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