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Daddyji: Continents of Exile: 1 (Penguin Modern Classics) Kindle Edition
by Ved Mehta (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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.
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About the Author
Ved Mehta is a journalist, novelist, and one of the most prolific memoirists of the twentieth century. Blind since the age of four, Mehta spent his early years in India, before first moving to America, where he studied at Harvard, and then to Britain, where he studied at Oxford. A MacArthur Prize fellow and member of the British Royal Society of Literature, he was a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine for over thirty years. His 27 books include the acclaimed multi-volume memoir Continents of Exile.
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ASIN : B08JPP4XHR
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : 5 November 2020
Language : English
File size : 2.5 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 151 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-0241504895
Page Flip : Enabled
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5.0 out of 5 stars Book was delivered promptly and was in very good condition as advertised.Reviewed in the United States on 28 February 2025
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Book was delivered promptly and was in very good condition as advertised.
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Arvind S
5.0 out of 5 stars A vivid picture of life in the late 19th and early 20th centuriesReviewed in India on 24 June 2016
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One might expect the book, which is basically biographical, to be heavy reading. However, the author’s prose has a light touch, and succeeds in making the book very easy to read. This combined with his unsentimental though sympathetic narration, results in a vivid picture of social and family life in Punjab in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and of human relations more generally.
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5.0 out of 5 stars MarvellousReviewed in India on 1 April 2021
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excellent publication, excellent story of the author himself, a visually challenged person working as a correspondent of a US newspaper
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5.0 out of 5 stars FatherReviewed in India on 12 July 2016
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Great work, I really enjoyed reading it.
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