| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0241144051 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-241-14405-3 |
| No of pages | 277 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Penguin UK |
| Published Date | 30 Aug 2007 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0241144051 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-241-14405-3 |
| No of pages | 277 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Penguin UK |
| Published Date | 30 Aug 2007 |
Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then back across Russia to his point of origin.
Although perhaps best known as a travelogue writer, Theroux has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast.
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This fabulous, far-reaching book breathtakingly captures the tumult, ambition, hardship and serenity that mark modern India. Theroux’s characters risk venturing far beyond its well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A holidaying middle-aged couple veer heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds relief in Mumbai’s reeking slums. A young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore.
We also meet Indian characters as distinctive as they are indicative of their country’s subtle ironies: an executive who yearns to become a holy beggar, an earnest young striver whose personality is transformed by acquiring an American accent, a miracle-working guru, and more. The Elephant Suite urges us towards a fresh, compelling, and often inspiring notion of India and its effect on those who try to lose ― or find ― themselves there.