Sound-Shadows of the New World : Continents of Exile: 5 EPUB
by Ved Mehta
Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series
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Book 5 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. In 1949, fifteen-year-old Ved Mehta -- blind since the age of four -- left his native India and travelled alone to a school for the blind in Arkansas, USA.
For the next three years he studied with over a hundred blind or partially sighted children at the school.
Here, he would learn how to deal with Western teachers, date girls, and begin to perceive objects by means of 'sound-shadows'.
Sound-Shadows of the New World brilliantly traces the emigrant experience amid the difficult transition from adolescence into adulthood.
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- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:03/12/2020
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- ISBN:9780241504932
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:03/12/2020
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- ISBN:9780241504932
