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Synopsis
Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet none the less he is an outcast in India's caste an Untouchable. In deceptively simple prose this groundbreaking novel describes a day in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, as he searches for a meaning to the tragic existence he has been born into - and comes to an unexpected conclusion. Mulk Raj Anand poured a vitality, fire and richness of detail into his controversial work, which led him to be acclaimed as his country's Charles Dickens and one of the twentieth century's most important Indian writers.
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Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004) was among the most highly regarded Indian novelists who wrote in English. Born in Peshawar, he lived in England for many years before settling in a village in Western India after World War II.
Ramachandra Guha is the author of a forthcoming two-volume biography of Gandhi and is a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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One of the most eloquent and imaginative works to deal with this difficult and emotive subject -- Martin Seymour-Smith It recalled to me very vividly the occasions I have walked 'the wrong way' in an Indian city, and it is a way down which no novelist has yet taken me -- E. M. Forster
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Untouchable
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The Bodley Head, 1970
ISBN 10: 037001409X
ISBN 13: 9780370014098
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The Bodley Head, 1970; first printing of this edition, with a new afterword by Saros Cowasjee; 189pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; corners of boards and ends of spine bumped, else very good; titling remains bright and bold. Age-toning to dust jacket extremities and page block. Foxing also to text block top and fore-edge. Interior is free of markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Seller Inventory # 326843
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