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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #100529 in Books
- Published on: 1999-01-22
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 528 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
Evokes the first 24 years of the author's life in Calcutta and in his ancestral village in East Bengal. The book combines memoirs with a sweeping survey of Indian history and culture in the last years of the Raj.
Customer Reviews
a magnificent majestic work of supreme importance
This is one of the most extraordinary and important books to come out of India this century: as Doris Lessing says: "Reading this book is to be immersed in India, you feel you are living that life, such is the power of this acute stubbornly honest, capaciously minded writer to recreate his times. He is a product of the period when Indians were nourished by English literature, law, thought. The contrast between the vivid details of village and family life and the slow growth towardsthe grandeur of his moral and literary vision provides the tension of these vivid pages. THIS IS ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY"
