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Continents of Exile: 2

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  • Book
  • 2
  • 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.Translating
  • individual
  • experience
  • into
  • the
  • universal,
  • Mehta
  • recounts
  • the
  • story
  • of
  • his
  • mother's
  • arranged
  • marriage
  • to
  • a
  • British-trained
  • doctor
  • and,
  • by
  • extension,
  • of
  • an
  • ancient
  • Indian
  • family's
  • struggle
  • to
  • find
  • its
  • place
  • in
  • a
  • modern,
  • rapidly
  • changing world.
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