The Elephanta suite
By: Paul Theroux.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780618943326
Subjects: Americans -- India -- Fiction; India -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "This startling and satisfying book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today's India. Theroux's characters 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" -- publisher website (September 2007).
Table of contents: title: Monkey Hill; title: The gateway of India; title: The elephant god.