The Romantics
A Novel
Pankaj Mishra is one of the most promising talents of his generation, and this stunning, universally praised novel of self-discovery heralds a remarkable career.
The young Brahman Samar has come to the holy city of Benares to complete his education and take the civil service exam that will determine his future. But in this city redolent of timeworn customs, where pilgrims bathe in the sacred Ganges and breathe in smoke from burning ghats along the shore, Samar is offered entirely different perspectives on his country. Miss West and her circle, indifferent to the reality around them, represent those drawn to India as a respite from the material world. And Rajesh, a sometimes violent, sometimes mystical leader of student…
$24.95
February 20, 2001Pankaj Mishra is the author of Age of Anger: A History of the Present, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, and several other books of nonfiction and fiction. Mishra won the 2024 Weston International Award, as well as the 2014 Windham–Campbell Prize for nonfiction. He writes regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The London Review of Books, among others.
The World After Gaza
Pankaj Mishra
A Passage to India
E. M. Forster; Edited by Oliver Stallybrass; Introduction by Pankaj Mishra
From the Ruins of Empire
Pankaj Mishra
The Time Regulation Institute
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar; Translated by Alexander Dawe and Maureen Freely; Introduction by Pankaj Mishra
India in Mind
Pankaj Mishra, Editor
Kim
Rudyard Kipling