The Romantics: A Novel: Now with a New Introduction
Samar, a young man of limited means, moves to Benares, the ancient city of learning, to lose himself in the world of books. There he meets Rajesh, a poor student, and Catherine, a young French woman, who shows him a very different side of his own country—and self.
A resonant and ambitious novel, The Romantics is both the story of a sentimental education and of the widening fault lines within contemporary India.
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The Romantics: A Novel: Now with a New Introduction
Samar, a young man of limited means, moves to Benares, the ancient city of learning, to lose himself in the world of books. There he meets Rajesh, a poor student, and Catherine, a young French woman, who shows him a very different side of his own country—and self.
A resonant and ambitious novel, The Romantics is both the story of a sentimental education and of the widening fault lines within contemporary India.
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The Romantics: A Novel: Now with a New Introduction

The Romantics: A Novel: Now with a New Introduction

by Pankaj Mishra
The Romantics: A Novel: Now with a New Introduction

The Romantics: A Novel: Now with a New Introduction

by Pankaj Mishra

Overview

Samar, a young man of limited means, moves to Benares, the ancient city of learning, to lose himself in the world of books. There he meets Rajesh, a poor student, and Catherine, a young French woman, who shows him a very different side of his own country—and self.
A resonant and ambitious novel, The Romantics is both the story of a sentimental education and of the widening fault lines within contemporary India.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780143421221
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd
Publication date: 04/13/2025
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: (w) x (h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Pankaj Mishra is the author of From the Ruins of Empire and several other books. He is a columnist at Bloomberg View and the New York Times Book Review, and writes regularly for The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and the New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.
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