The Romantics

Proof Copy. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 277, [1]. Pictorial wraps.

Author's debut novel, inspired by Flaubert's Sentimental Education. Winner of the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Shortlisted for India's Crossword Prize. Based on Mishra's article, Edmund Wilson in Benares, first published in The New York Review of Books.

The story of a Brahmin youth who travels to the holy city of Benares and there falls in with a motley crew of westerners enamoured of India. "Grip[s] the reader as artfully and as compellingly as the first page of A Passage to India." –The New York Review of Books