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Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 – 1997
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The Indian subcontinent has produced some of the world’s greatest writers, and a body of literature unsurpassed in its sustained imagination, impassioned lyricism and sparkling tragi-comedy. Now Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West have collected together the finest Indian writing of the last fifty years. Published to coincide with the anniversary of India’s independence, it is an anthology of extraordinary range and vigour, as exciting and varied as the land that inspired it.Including works by:Mulk Raj AnandGita MehtaAnjana AppachanaVed Mehta Vikram ChandraRohinton MistryUpamanyu ChatterjeeR. K. NarayanAmit ChaudhuriJawaharlal NehruNirad C. ChaudhuriPadma PereraAnita DesaiSatyajit RayKiran DesaiArundhati RoyG. V. DesaniSalman RushdieAmitav GhoshNayantara SahgalGitha HariharanI. Allan SealyRuth Prawer JhabvalaVikram SethFirdaus KangaBapsi SidhwaMukul Kesavan Sara SuleriSaadat Hasan MantoShashi TharoorKamala Markandaya Ardashir Vakil
Additional information
| Weight | 0.438 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 608 |
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| Year Published | 1997-6-19 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099731010 |
| About The Author | Salman Rushdie is the author of ten novels, one collection of short stories, three works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the Best of the Booker, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its forty year history. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.Elizabeth West is a freelance editor. |
Rushdie offers us a sweeping, birds' eye view of 50 years of good writing. He proves that there is an Indo-Anglian canon, and as he reaches our own time, he elects new contenders for future glory |
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| Other text | For matters both literary and (in the broad sense) political, one of the most informative, as well as enjoyable, [books about India] is The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-97… Rushdie's fine introduction to this compendium of contemporary Indian prose…digresses fascinatingly on polylingualism, identity and dislocation |
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