The Elephanta Suite

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• A new passage to India

  The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux Hamish Hamilton £18.99, pp288 Alice, the heroine of the last of these three novellas, 'The Elephant God', a young American woman on a train, feels that Indian novels haven't adequately prepared her for the experien ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Heedlessly chewing with mouth open

  The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux 278pp, Hamish Hamilton, £18.99 Paul Theroux, objecting to Americans' ineligibility for the Booker prize, once said: "The year that really annoyed me was when that Polish woman, who happened to have been married to ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

1 Review

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  Have always been fascinated by books about India /west meets east, ever since I read Passage to India at university. This, my first book by Theroux has not disappointed me.
  The three rather long short stories are very slightly intertconnected- they narrate the experience of modern day India and its ... (continue)

  Have always been fascinated by books about India /west meets east, ever since I read Passage to India at university. This, my first book by Theroux has not disappointed me.
  The three rather long short stories are very slightly intertconnected- they narrate the experience of modern day India and its ageless culture the three protagonists gain in their travels, 3 Americans of different age groups and expectations.Some of their adventures and travel impressions can be easily recognizable by anyone who has been there once in his life.
  The endings of each story have an unexpected twist that hits you hard,which reminds me of some other contemporary English-speaking novelists.
  The swami's response to Alice's predicament is very simuilar to the rabbis'counselling in the latest movie by the Cohen bros.

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• English Books
• Hardcover 288 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0771085214
• ISBN-13: 9780771085215
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Pub date: Oct 16, 2007
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD and eBook

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