The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature by Amit Chaudhuri

The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature by Amit Chaudhuri

In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the present, presenting today's brightest talents in the company of their distinguished forbearers and likely heirs.

The thirty-eight authors collected by novelist Amit Chaudhuri write not only in English but also in Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu. They include Rabindranath Tagore, arguably the first international literary celebrity, chronicling the wistful relationship between a village postal inspector and a servant girl, and Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee, represented by an excerpt from his classic novel about an impoverished Bengali childhood, Pather Panchali. Here, too, are selections from Nirad C. Chaudhuri's Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, R. K. Narayan's The English Teacher, and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children alongside a high-spirited nonsense tale, a drily funny account of a pre-Partition Muslim girlhood, and a Bombay policier as gripping as anything by Ed McBain. Never before has so much of the subcontinent's writing been made available in a single volume.

Amit Chaudhuri has established himself as one of the most influential characters in current culture during the past 15 years. He is an internationally recognized musician and prominent essayist, as well as the author of several award-winning novels, including A Weird and Sublime Address and Afternoon Raag. His pieces have published in a variety of publications, including the London Review of Books and Granta. He is currently the University of East Anglia's Professor of Current Literature.

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ISBN 13	9780375713002
ISBN 10	037571300X
Title	The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature
Author	Amit Chaudhuri
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2004-11-09
Number of pages	688
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