{"product_id":"9780547086026","title":"The Elephanta Suite","description":"\u003cp\u003eA master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis startling, far-reaching book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today’s India. Theroux’s Westerners 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 succor in Mumbai’s reeking slums. And a young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe also meet Indian characters as singular as they are reflective 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 others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs ever, Theroux’s portraits of people and places explode stereotypes to exhilarating effect. The Elephanta Suite 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","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013203837168,"sku":"9780547086026","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547086026_p0.jpg?v=1763779638","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547086026","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}