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Sound-Shadows of the New World
  • Published: 3 December 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241504932
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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Sound-Shadows of the New World

Continents of Exile: 5

  • Ved Mehta
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Book 5 in Ved Mehta's extraordinary series of memoirs, Continents of Exile

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.
  • Published: 3 December 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241504932
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
Categories:

Praise for Sound-Shadows of the New World

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

Mehta's touching, often funny and always fascinating odyssey provides us with a unique picture in prose as pure and lambent as lake water

Kirkus Reviews