# The Elephanta Suite

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- Authors: [Paul Theroux](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-theroux)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2008-08-28

## Description

This fabulous, far-reaching book breathtakingly captures the tumult, ambition, hardship and serenity that mark modern India. Theroux’s characters risk venturing far beyond its well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A holidaying middle-aged couple veer heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds relief in Mumbai’s reeking slums. A young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore. We also meet Indian characters as distinctive as they are indicative of their country’s subtle ironies: an executive who yearns to become a holy beggar, an earnest young striver whose personality is transformed by acquiring an American accent, a miracle-working guru, and more. The Elephanta Suite urges us towards a fresh, compelling, and often inspiring notion of India and its effect on those who try to lose — or find — themselves there.

## Editions

### The Elephanta Suite

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-886-5
- Published: 2011-11-24
- Language: en_GB

### The Elephanta Suite

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4102-958-0
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2008-08-28
- Language: en_GB