{"product_id":"the-elephanta-suite","title":"The Elephanta Suite: Three Novellas","description":"A master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This startling, far-reaching book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today’s India. Theroux’s Westerners risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent’s well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A middle-aged couple on vacation veers heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds succor in Mumbai’s reeking slums. And a young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We also meet Indian characters as singular as they are reflective of the country’s subtle ironies: an executive who yearns to become a holy beggar, an earnest young striver whose personality is rewired by acquiring an American accent, a miracle-working guru, and others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As ever, Theroux’s portraits of people and places explode stereotypes to exhilarating effect. \u003cem\u003eThe Elephanta Suite\u003c\/em\u003e urges us toward a fresh, compelling, and often inspiring notion of what India is, and what it can do to those who try to lose—or find—themselves there.","brand":"Paul Theroux","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53153767063843,"sku":"9780547086026","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780547086026.jpg?v=1741159837","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/the-elephanta-suite","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}