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The Impressionist
[Paperback - 2003]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: South Asian Literature
Publisher: Plume | ISBN: 9780452283978 | Pages: 0
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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.

Hari Kunzru is the author of six novels, most recently White Tears, a finalist for the PEN Jean Stein Award. His new book, Red Pill, will be published in September 2020. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. His writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, New York Review of Books, New Yorker, Guardian, Granta, October and Frieze. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He teaches in the Creative Writing program at New York University and is the host of the new podcast Into the Zone, from Pushkin media.

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