'If you buy one literary novel this year, make sure it's this' THE TIMES
'The Romantics looks to Flaubert's Sentimental Education, to E.M. Forster, to Turgenev. But it is the product of a distinctive and sharp intelligence' HILARY MANTEL
'Grips the reader as artfully and as compellingly as the first page of A Passage to India' THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
1989. In the holy city of Varanasi, 19-year-old Samar rents a room to avoid a small-town job and lose himself in reading about worlds outside of India. But when he is thrust into local a circle of privileged European and American expats, led by the charismatic Miss West, Samar will soon face his own silent desires and crumbling beliefs.
'A work of art' Financial Times
'A supernova' The Washington Post
'A charming debut' The Independent
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 17/02/2022
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ISBN: 9781529151879
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Length: 288 Pages
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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The Romantics looks to Flaubert's Sentimental Education, to E.M. Forster, to Turgenev. But it is the product of a distinctive and sharp intelligence
Hilary Mantel
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A sensitive and introspective novel . . . a meditation on hope and failure. Mishra's evocations of Indian landscape and customs are vivid and thoughtful; his prose clean and unhampered and his descriptive passages to be savoured
Guardian
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Contemporary India is brought to vigorous, thrumming life in the pages of The Romantics
Sunday Times
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If you buy one literary novel this year, make sure it's this
Amanda Craig, The Times
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This bright new star is the real thing
David Robson, Sunday Telegraph
