The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature

In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman...
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Author: Amit Chaudhuri
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Language: English
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The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature by Chaudhuri, Amit

The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature

$55.50

The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature

$55.50
Author: Amit Chaudhuri
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the present, presenting today's brightest talents in the company of their distinguished forbearers and likely heirs.

The thirty-eight authors collected by novelist Amit Chaudhuri write not only in English but also in Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu. They include Rabindranath Tagore, arguably the first international literary celebrity, chronicling the wistful relationship between a village postal inspector and a servant girl, and Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee, represented by an excerpt from his classic novel about an impoverished Bengali childhood, Pather Panchali. Here, too, are selections from Nirad C. Chaudhuri's Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, R. K. Narayan's The English Teacher, and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children alongside a high-spirited nonsense tale, a drily funny account of a pre-Partition Muslim girlhood, and a Bombay policier as gripping as anything by Ed McBain. Never before has so much of the subcontinent's writing been made available in a single volume.

Author: Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/09/2004
Pages: 688
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.26w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9780375713002


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2002 pg. 102
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2002 pg. 679
PW Notes and Reprints 06/10/2002 pg. 43
Booklist 06/01/2002 pg. 1669
Publishers Weekly 06/10/2002

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