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Ledge Between the Streams
  • Published: 5 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241504925
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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Ledge Between the Streams

Continents of Exile: 4

  • Ved Mehta
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Book 4 in Ved Mehta's extraordinary series of memoirs, Continents of Exile

Book 4 in Ved Mehta's Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian family in the twentieth century. From 1930s India to 1950s Oxford and literary New York in the 1960s-80s, this is the story of the post-colonial twentieth century, as uniquely experienced and vividly recounted by Ved Mehta.

Set against the distant storm of the Second World War and the waning light of British Raj, Ved Mehta's brilliant memoir Ledge Between the Streams tells of an Indian childhood and the coming to terms with growing blindness: how, despite his disability, he learned English, Braille, horseback riding, bicycling, touch typing, and roller skating.
  • Published: 5 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241504925
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
Categories:

Praise for Ledge Between the Streams

His fall into blindness had broken open his perception so that nothing escapes him . . . he has a clarity that is sometimes like clairvoyance

Peter Ackroyd

With rich backgrounds of nation and family: the most personally compelling of the Mehta memoirs

Kirkus Reviews

Well-chosen details represent more than themselves... The trick is to choose the details, which Mehta does with consummate, sly skill

Michael Wood

A fabulous achievement

London Review of Books