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Fathered, through circuitous circumstances, by an Englishman, Pran Nath Razdan, the boy who will become the Impressionist, was passed off by his Indian mother as the child of her husband, a wealthy man of high caste. Growing up spoiled in a life of luxury just downriver from the Taj Mahal, at fifteen the news of Pran's true parentage is revealed to his father and he is tossed out into the street -- a pariah and an outcast. Thus begins an extraordinary, near mythical journey of a young man who must re-invent himself to survive -- not once, but many times.Imprisoned by a brothel and dressed in women's clothes, his sensuous beauty is exploited as he is made to become Rukhsana, a pawn in a game between colony and empire. To a depraved British major he becomes Clive, an object of desire taught to be a model English schoolboy. Escaping to Bombay he begins a double life as Robert, dutiful foster child to a Scottish missionary couple, and as Pretty Bobby, errand boy and sometime pimp to the tawdry women of the city's most notorious district.But as political unrest begins to stir, Pran finds himself in the company of a doomed young Englishman -- an orphan named Jonathan Bridgeman. Having le

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Author

Hari Kunzru

Publisher

A Plume Book

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101656136

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychology