New York: Dutton, 2002. SIGNED first edition - An unusual first novel, set in Victorian India and Edwardian England, about what it means to be Indian and to be English, or black or white, or both. From the review in the San Francisco Chronicle: 'From this moment right up till a few pages shy of the ending, Kunzru follows his hero's adventures with an eye for the savage follies of empire that even Evelyn Waugh might have envied. ...'The Impressionist' is a picaresque stitch, a deadly serious book about race and empire that can still put a reader on the floor with the exquisitely timed comic understatement of its language. '