Ledge Between the Streams
Author | : Ved Mehta |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2020-11-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780241504925 |
ISBN-13 | : 0241504929 |
Rating | : 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Download or read book Ledge Between the Streams written by Ved Mehta and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 4 in Ved Mehta's Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian family in the twentieth century. From 1930s India to 1950s Oxford and literary New York in the 1960s-80s, this is the story of the post-colonial twentieth century, as uniquely experienced and vividly recounted by Ved Mehta. Set against the distant storm of the Second World War and the waning light of British Raj, Ved Mehta's brilliant memoir Ledge Between the Streams tells of an Indian childhood and the coming to terms with growing blindness: how, despite his disability, he learned English, Braille, horseback riding, bicycling, touch typing, and roller skating.