The Impressionist Av Hari Kunzru

<p><b>A sweeping, colourful adventure from the acclaimed author of <i>White Tears</i></b><br><br><b>Discover Hari Kunzru's smash-hit debut novel</b><br><br>This is the extraordinary story of a child conceived in a wild monsoon night, a boy destined to be an outsider, a man with many names and no name.<br><br>Born into luxury but disinherited and cast out onto the streets of Agra, Pran Nath must become a chameleon. Chasing his fortune, he will travel from the red light district of Bombay to the green lawns of England to the unmapped African wilderness. He will play many different roles -- a young prize in a brothel, the adopted son of Scottish missionaries, the impeccably educated young Englishman headed for Oxford -- in order to find the role that will finally fit.<br><br>Daring and riotously inventive, <i>The Impressionist </i>is an odyssey of self-discovery: a tale of the many lives one man can live and of the universal search for true identity.</p>