The Razor's Edge

One sentence synopsis... Tracing the lives of American expats in Paris and India, ‘The Razor's Edge' explores the dichotomy between materialism and spirituality during the Great Depression.

Read it if you like... Westerners seeking enlightenment in India (Larry is the original ‘Eat Pray Love', George Harrison has nothing on this guy), Paris novels (though the book spans Chicago, Paris, and India it's primarily set in France), or pondering the meaninglessness of modern life.

Dream casting... the cover of my copy of the book has Bill Murray as Larry so I thought I'd have to work hard to imagine anyone else but in reality, the whole vibe of Larry - affluent, charming, traumatized from his experiences in WWI, setting off in search of a transcendent meaning of life - would be perfectly captured by Andrew Garfield.