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From the author of White Tears, this bestselling, award-winning novel of a young man’s journey explores what it means to be Indian or English, black or white, and every degree that lies between.Pran Nath Razdan, the boy who will become the Impressionist, was passed off by his Indian mother as the child of her husband, a wealthy man of a high caste. Pran lived a life of luxury just downriver from the Taj Mahal, but at fifteen, the news of Pran’s true parentage is revealed to his father and he is tossed out into the street—a pariah and an outcast. Thus begins an extraordinary, near mythical journey of a young man who must reinvent himself to survive—not once, but many times.From Victorian India to Edwardian London, from an expatriate community of black Americans in Paris to a hopeless expedition to study a lost tribe of Africa, Hari Kunzru’s unforgettable debut novel dazzles with its artistry and wit while it challenges with its insights into the self, nationality, race, and beyond.

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How to make sense of a novel that crams together magical realism, crass humor, hundred-year-old caricatures, unrequited love, and blatant satire (e.g., the African tribe with their elaborate financial rituals are the Fotse; perhaps you’re meant to read the FTSE stock exchange)? Kunzru is obviously an intelligent and talented writer with a prodigious vocabulary and an expansive imagination. What did he intend?Reviews at the time it was published, including the NY Times and The Guardian, assumed it was meant as a typical Bildungsroman about a biracial protagonist and faulted it for his being shallow and unsympathetic. (It was, after all, a first novel: What can one expect?) Later commentators saw it as a satire of colonialism (in particular British colonialism) in line with and heavily borrowing from Forrester, Kipling and Conrad).My take is that it’s not about a character or about colonialism but about the culture of the colonized. Pran is not a man but the comingled culture of India and Britain. The arrival of the British must have seemed like a deus ex machine event to the resident culture – inexplicable without resorting to the supernatural. At first, the culture is the ultimate victim. (I won’t go into detail, but Kunzru is pretty explicit about the crude expression of that could describe it.) Next the culture learns to take advantage of the colonizer. (In the book, since it uses the novel form, the shift is sudden rather than gradual as if Pran jumps from one personality to another.) Then the culture turns into its own version of being British. Finally the culture becomes so British that it joins the oppressors in subjugating other cultures, just at the point that British Empire begins to slip. The British beauty rejects the Pran (the hybrid culture) and marries the India he would have been. Finally, the culture is wandering on its own, touching the scars of its experience.Graduate seminars could stretch discussion of the specifics for endless hours. (For example, if the Fotse are the FTSE, is the global financial markets what brings down the Raj?) Regardless of which interpretation is right, the writing is beautiful, filled with humor (sometimes flagrant, mostly subtle) and the plot spun with rich detail. Not your typical novel, but well worth the read.

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