Summary
Hari Kunzru: The Impressionist
At the turn of the new century, in a remote corner of India, an English civil servant and a reluctant Hindi bride meet during a cataclysmic storm.
After nine months, a boy is born. The astrological chart does not bode well...
"The Impressionist intelligently mocks the beliefs that underpinned - and outlived - Empire. Kunzru is part of a 21st-century generation that looks back not so much with anger as with cold scorn."
The Guardian, Maya Jaggi
"Bold, funny, knocks you off your feet... Kunzru writes with mocking certainty. and with cinematic precision about identity, aspirations and non-belonging set against the backdrop of a Britain that is nothing but a shambles."
The New York Times, Janet Maslin
"A brilliant, sumptuous, extravagant and extremely lyrical novel. Kunzru's prose is sublime, often to the point of exaggeration... The work is so rich, vivid and brilliantly imagined that you can almost smell the incense"
Esquire, Adrienne Miller
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