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  • Published: 5 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241504918
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

Vedi

Continents of Exile: 3

  • Ved Mehta


Book 3 in Ved Mehta's extraordinary series of memoirs, Continents of Exile

Book 3 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.
Ved continues the story of Ved Mehta's two earlier memoirs, Daddyji, a biographical portrait of his father, and Mamaji, an exploration of his mother and her history. The focus here turns toward Mehta's childhood, his education in an Indian orphanage for the blind, and the general experience of blind people in India.

  • Published: 5 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241504918
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

Praise for Vedi

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

Intelligent, critically observing ... extraordinary

Janet Malcolm, in praise of Continents of Exile