Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 - 1997

Elizabeth West, Salman Rushdie, Seamus Deane

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Vintage
08 August 1997

Literary essays; Anthologies (non-poetry)

The perfect introduction to one of the world's richest literary traditions, Rushdie's anthology boasts the best in Indian writing accross 50 years of independence.

The Indian subcontinent has produced some of the world's greatest writers, and a body of literature unsurpassed in its sustained imagination, impassioned lyricism and sparkling tragi-comedy. Now Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West have collected together the finest Indian writing of the last fifty years. Published to coincide with the anniversary of India's independence, it is an anthology of extraordinary range and vigour, as exciting and varied as the land that inspired it.

Including works by-

Mulk Raj Anand Gita Mehta Anjana Appachana Ved Mehta

Vikram Chandra Rohinton Mistry Upamanyu Chatterjee R. K. Narayan Amit Chaudhuri Jawaharlal Nehru Nirad C. Chaudhuri Padma Perera Anita Desai Satyajit Ray Kiran Desai Arundhati Roy G. V. Desani Salman Rushdie Amitav Ghosh Nayantara Sahgal Githa Hariharan I. Allan Sealy Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Vikram Seth Firdaus Kanga Bapsi Sidhwa Mukul Kesavan

Sara Suleri Saadat Hasan Manto Shashi Tharoor Kamala Markandaya

Ardashir Vakil

By: Elizabeth West, Salman Rushdie, Seamus Deane
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 438g
ISBN: 9780099731016
ISBN 10: 0099731010
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 08 August 1997
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Salman Rushdie is the author of ten novels, one collection of short stories, three works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the Best of the Booker, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its forty year history. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. Elizabeth West is a freelance editor.

Reviews for Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 - 1997

A selection of 'the best Indian writing of the half-century since Independence': 32 pieces in all - lyrical, funny, sad, impassioned; stories, speeches and extracts from novels by (among others) Anita Desai, Nirad Chaudhuri, Ved Mehta, Vikram Seth, Nehru (an eve-of-independence speech) and Rushdie himself. (Kirkus UK)