The Stolen Light

Continents of Exile: 6

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  • Book
  • 6
  • 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.The
  • Stolen
  • Light
  • engages
  • with
  • the
  • particular
  • difficulties
  • of
  • Mehta's
  • experience:
  • he
  • was
  • blind
  • in
  • a
  • college
  • made
  • for
  • the
  • seeing,
  • he
  • was
  • an
  • Indian
  • in
  • the
  • United
  • States,
  • a
  • Hindu
  • in
  • a
  • Christian
  • environment,
  • a
  • dark-skinned
  • man
  • surrounded
  • by
  • white
  • people.
  • With
  • compelling
  • honesty
  • and
  • humour,
  • Mehta
  • describes
  • his
  • struggles
  • to
  • live
  • an
  • ordinary
  • university
  • life
  • -
  • dating,
  • riding
  • a
  • bicycle,
  • keeping
  • up
  • with
  • his
  • studies
  • -
  • while
  • dealing
  • with
  • incredible obstacles.
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