Daddyji
  • Published: 5 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241504895
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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Daddyji

Continents of Exile: 1

  • Ved Mehta
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Book 1 in Ved Mehta's extraordinary series of memoirs, Continents of Exile

Book 1 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.

On its surface, Daddyji serves as a lucid biographical portrait of Amolak Ram Mehta, an esteemed Indian public servant, written by his son. But as Ved Mehta's story unwinds, it becomes apparent that something else is being recreated - the intricacies and intimacies of a lost world, of pre-Partition Lahore.
  • Published: 5 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241504895
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
Categories:

Praise for Daddyji

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