The Romantics

<b>'If you buy one literary novel this year, make sure it's this'</b> <i>The Times</i>
<b>'</b><b><i>The Romantics</i></b> <b>looks to Flaubert's</b> <b><i>Sentimental Education</i></b><b>, to E.M ...

<b>'If you buy one literary novel this year, make sure it's this'</b> <i>The Times</i>
<b>'</b><b><i>The Romantics</i></b> <b>looks to Flaubert's</b> <b><i>Sentimental Education</i></b><b>, to E.M. Forster, to Turgenev. But it is the product of a distinctive and sharp intelligence'</b> Hilary Mantel
<b>'Grips the reader as artfully and as compellingly as the first page of</b> <b><i>A Passage to India</i></b><b>'</b> <i>The New York Review of Books</i><i>
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</i><b>WINNER OF THE <i>LOS ANGELES TIMES</i> ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION</b><i>
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</i></b>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.
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<b>'A work of art'</b> <i>Financial Times</i>
<b>'A supernova'</b> <i>The Washington Post</i>
<b>'A charming debut'</b> <i>The Independent</i>