Dark Harbor
Author | : Ved Mehta |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2021-01-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780241504994 |
ISBN-13 | : 0241504996 |
Rating | : 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Download or read book Dark Harbor written by Ved Mehta and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 11 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. This chapter of Mehta's remarkable memoirs details the many dilemmas he encounters during the building of a new home on a strange, irresistible island: from ever-climbing costs to a frequent infestations of potato bugs in the basement. Underlying the travails of construction lies a richly allegorical tale about Mehta's own struggles as a writer and as a man in love.