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Mamaji
  • Published: 5 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241504901
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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Mamaji

Continents of Exile: 2

  • Ved Mehta
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Book 2 in Ved Mehta's extraordinary series of memoirs, Continents of Exile

Book 2 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.

Translating individual experience into the universal, Mehta recounts the story of his mother's arranged marriage to a British-trained doctor and, by extension, of an ancient Indian family's struggle to find its place in a modern, rapidly changing world.
  • Published: 5 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241504901
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
Categories:

Praise for Mamaji

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

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

Intelligent, critically observing ... extraordinary

Janet Malcolm, in praise of Continents of Exile
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