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The Elephanta Suite

The Elephanta Suite

Author(s): Paul Theroux

Location(s): India

Genre(s): Fiction, Novella

Era(s): Modern

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The Elephanta Suite brilliantly explores the shifting stories of those who come to India in search of that elusive something – and of how they react when the country and people they encounter are altogether foreign to their expectations.

Through the eyes of a middle-aged couple, a sharp-suited lawyer and a gap-year traveller, we see illusions and preconceptions unravel, and an extraordinary new India – modern, complicated, uncertain of its coming future – appears before us.

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Theroux has a sharp eye. . . re-working the old colonial themes in light of the country’s rapid but uneven development. Theroux hasn’t lost any of his insight or power to enthral’ Sunday Telegraph

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