The latest in our appealing travel series- an anthology of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that captures the world's second most populous nation in all its beguiling complexity. A VINTAGE DEPARTURES ORIGINAL.
Ever since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This superb anthology gives us some of the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that has been written about the world's second most populous nation over the past two centuries.
From Mark Twain's puzzled fascination with Indian castes and customs, to Allen Ginsberg's awe at the country's spiritual and natural splendors, or from J. R. Ackerley's delightful recollections of his visits with an eccentric gay Maharajah, to Gore Vidal's unforgettable scene in his novel Creation, in which his character finally meets the Buddha and is bewildered-all twenty-five selections in India in Mind reveal a place that evokes, in the traveler, reactions ranging from fear and perplexity to astonishment and wonder. Edited and with an introduction and chapter notes by the award-winning novelist Pankaj Mishra, India in Mind is a marvel of sympathy, sensitivity, and perception, not to mention outstanding writing.
Edited by:
Pankaj Mishra
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 130mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 278g
ISBN: 9780375727450
ISBN 10: 0375727450
Series: Vintage Departures
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 04 January 2005
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
J. R. Ackerley, from Hindoo Holiday Paul Bowles, “Notes Mailed at Nagercoil” Bruce Chatwin, “Shamdev: The Wolf-Boy” Robyn Davidson, from Desert Places E. M. Forster, from Abinger Harvest Allen Ginsberg, from Indian Journals Hermann Hesse, from “Childhood of the Magician” Pico Iyer, from Abandon Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, “Two More Under the Indian Sun” Rudyard Kiplin, from Kim Claude Lévi-Strauss, from Tristes Tropiques André Malraux, from Anti-Memoirs Peter Matthiessen, from The Snow Leopard W. Somerset Maugham, from A Writer’s Notebook Ved Mehta, from Portrait of India Jan Morris, “Mrs. Gupta Never Rang” V. S. Naipaul, from An Area of Darkness George Orwell, “Shootining an Elephant” Pier Paolo Pasolini, from The Scent of India Octavio Paz, from A Tale of Two Gardens Alan Ross, from Blindfold Games Paul Scott, from The Jewel in the Crown Paul Theroux, from The Great Railway Bazaar Mark Twain, from Following the Equator Gore Vidal, from Creation
Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969 and now lives in London and India. He is the author of The Romantics, which won the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and An End to Suffering- The Buddha in the World. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, Granta, and The Times Literary Supplement.
