The Stolen Light

The Stolen Light
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 422
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ISBN-10 : 9780241504949
ISBN-13 : 0241504945
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Stolen Light by : Ved Mehta

Download or read book The Stolen Light written by Ved Mehta and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 6 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. The Stolen Light engages with the particular difficulties of Mehta's experience: he was blind in a college made for the seeing, he was an Indian in the United States, a Hindu in a Christian environment, a dark-skinned man surrounded by white people. With compelling honesty and humour, Mehta describes his struggles to live an ordinary university life - dating, riding a bicycle, keeping up with his studies - while dealing with incredible obstacles.


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