The Impressionist

A sweeping colourful adventure from the acclaimed author of White TearsDiscover Hari Kunzru's smash-hit debut novelThis is the extraordinary story of a child conceived in a wild monsoon night a boy destined to be an outsider a man with many names and no name.Born into luxury but disinherited and cast out onto the streets of Agra Pran Nath must become a chameleon. Chasing his fortune he will travel from the red light district of Bombay to the green lawns of England to the unmapped African wilderness. He will play many different roles -- a young prize in a brothel the adopted son of Scottish missionaries the impeccably educated young Englishman headed for Oxford -- in order to find the role that will finally fit.Daring and riotously inventive The Impressionist is an odyssey of self-discovery: a tale of the many lives one man can live and of the universal search for true identity.