This comprehensive anthology of modern Indian writing, covering about a hundred and fifty years, shatters many illusions about the literature of this continent. Translations from Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, and the south sit alongside writing in English, bringing to light the greatest and most engaging writers from India's recent history. With insightful introductions to the writers and their work, this is the most eclectic, enlightening and enthralling anthology of Indian writing to date. `A very lucid and engaging selection ...
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This comprehensive anthology of modern Indian writing, covering about a hundred and fifty years, shatters many illusions about the literature of this continent. Translations from Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, and the south sit alongside writing in English, bringing to light the greatest and most engaging writers from India's recent history. With insightful introductions to the writers and their work, this is the most eclectic, enlightening and enthralling anthology of Indian writing to date. `A very lucid and engaging selection that, for the first time, sets the quite extraordinary phenomenon of Indian writing post-1981 in a clear context . . . The real revelation, however, is in the twenty non-English-speaking writers represented here' Charles Allen, Spectator `Chaudhuri is a thoughtful commentator . . . A provocative and persuasive challenge to the orthodoxy about contemporary Indian writing . . . fascinating translations' Robert McCrum, Observer `There is much here to commend . . . The pen-portraits by the editor, placing writers in their context, are excellent . . . One thrills to the sight of writers of sensitivity and refinement' David Robson, Sunday Telegraph `The really valuable thing that Chaudhuri accomplishes . . . is to enable us to frame the question of what an Indian literature - not an object but a horizon - might look like' Alok Rai, Outlook
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Very good in Very good jacket. VGC. Picador, 2001. First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Purple hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with protected Dj(a couple of scratches and small nicks on the Dj cover), both in VGC. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Ex-Library book with some stamps, stickers and writing but in VGC. Nice and clean pages with small ink marks and library stamp on the outer edges, a couple of small creases and ink mark on the edges of the pages, mark on the front endpaper. The book is in VGC with light shelf wear.662pp including Notes on translators. price un-clipped. A collectable first edition-first printing.
