The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature
- ISBN-10
- 1417709405
- ISBN-13
- 9781417709403
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 646
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-11-01
- Publisher
- Turtleback Books
- Author
- Amit Chaudhuri
Description
Chaudhuri's extravagant and discerning collection unfurls the full diversity of Indian writing from the 1850s to the present in English, and in elegant new translations from Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu. Among the 38 authors represented are contemporary superstars such as Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, and Pankaj Mishra.
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