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From the discreet burgundy shade of his silk tie to his delicate suede shoes to his beautiful white skin, Jonathan Bridgeman is the ideal Englishman. True, his background is a bit murky?they say he was raised in colonial India?but he affords the proper impression, and in a well-manicured world where impressions are all that matter, he fits in seamlessly. But Jonathan Bridgeman isn't English. He isn't Indian. He isn't anything...
...Identity?precious, elusive, fakable?is at the heart of Hari Kunzru's engaging debut novel The Impressionist (Penguin; 481 pages), which explores what it is to be Indian, English and all that lies between. The boy who would will himself into becoming Jonathan Bridgeman was born Pran Nath, spoiled heir to a wealthy Hindu clan in WW I-era British India. He is celebrated for his royal paleness?until he is revealed to be the half-breed bastard of a British officer. Teenage Pran is promptly tossed from his house and launched on a journey to the ragged ends...
...seething Bombay that Bobby becomes convinced he can bridge the racial chasm of British India and pass as English. Bobby swipes the identity of an orphaned British lad and steals to England, where public school and Oxford pour the new Jonathan Bridgeman into the mold of a proper Englishman, only to have that mold ultimately crack...
...about the hit squad ordered to kill Kim Il Sung. (Filming will start this August.) Hewing closely to the original story, the movie will expose a part of history that most Koreans know little about. Under past military governments, it was taboo to mention the spy operations, says producer Jonathan Kim: "We were taught we didn't do stuff like that, only the North did. Nobody has talked about...
...ready,” the left-handed Kropf said. “[Brown starter Jonathan Stern’s] pitches looked like he was a lot tougher on righties. Lefties had a pretty good time with him the other day he started...