# The Impressionist

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- Authors: [Hari Kunzru](https://www.bookquiver.com/hari-kunzru)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4100-828-8
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2017-04-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This 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.