{"product_id":"9780141029580","title":"Elephanta Suite","description":"\u003cp\u003eA master of the travel narrative gives us three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis startling and satisfying book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today’s India. Paul Theroux’s characters risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent’s well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A middle-aged couple on vacation veers heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds succour in Mumbai’s reeking slums. And a young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages, we also meet Indian characters as singular as they are indicative of the country’s subtle ironies: an executive who yearns to become a holy beggar, an earnest young striver whose personality is rewired by acquiring an American accent, a miracle-working guru, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs ever, Theroux’s portraits of people and places explode stereotypes to exhilarating effect. \u003cb\u003eThe Elephanta Suite\u003c\/b\u003e urges us toward a fresh, compelling, and often inspiring notion of what India is, and what it can do to those who try to lose — or find — themselves there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viking Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022573060336,"sku":"9780141029580","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141029580_p0.jpg?v=1763655080","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141029580","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}