The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature
edited with an introduction by Amit Chaudhuri

Even a cursory reading of the bestseller lists is evidence that Indian writing is currently extremely popular. But Amit Chaudhuri's extravagant and discerning collection unfurls the full diversity of Indian writing from the 1850s to the present, not only in English, but in elegant new translations from Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu.

Among the thirty-eight authors represented here are contemporary superstars like Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, and Pankaj Mishra. But here, too, are Rabindranath Tagore -- arguably the first global literary celebrity -- chronicling the wistful relationship between a village postal inspector and a servant girl, and Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee, represented by an excerpt from his classic novel about an impoverished Bengali childhood, Pather Panchali. There are selections from Nirad C. Chaudhuri's The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian and R. K. Narayan's The English Teacher, alongside a high-spirited nonsense tale, a drily funny account of a pre-Partition Muslim girlhood, and a gripping Bombay policier. Never before has so much of the subcontinent's writing been made available in a single volume.

ZC3009    The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature          $15.00

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