Untouchable - Couverture souple

Anand, Mulk Raj

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141393602 ISBN 13 : 9780141393605

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Mulk Raj Anand's extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of GandhiBakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet none the less he is an Untouchable - an outcast in India's caste system. It is a system that is even now only slowly changing and was then as cruel and debilitating as that of apartheid. Into this vivid re-creation of one day in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, Anand pours a vitality, fire and richness of detail that earn his place as one of the twentieth century's most important Indian writers.'One of the most eloquent and imaginative works to deal with this difficult and emotive subject' Martin Seymour-Smith'It recalled to me very vividly the occasions I have walked 'the wrong way' in an Indian city, and it is a way down which no novelist has yet taken me' E. M. Forster

Biographie de l'auteur :

Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004) was among the most highly regarded Indian novelists who wrote in English. Born in Peshawar, he lived in England for many years before settling in a village in Western India after World War II.
 
Ramachandra Guha is the author of a forthcoming two-volume biography of Gandhi and is a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0141393602
• ISBN 13: 9780141393605
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160