Answer: Pankaj Mishra’s first novel in two decades, Run and Hide, is a Bildungsroman tale of three young men who come of age around the time when India’s economy is beginning to open up to the larger world. Arun, our narrator, is a small-town boy. His father makes a meager living selling snacks on a railway platform. But his family’s financial sacrifices pay off when Arun gains admission to the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
