Untouchable (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Mulk Raj Anand

ISBN 10: 0140183957 / ISBN 13: 9780140183955

Published by Penguin Classics, 1990

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0140183957I5N00

Synopsis:

Explores the plight of the `Untouchables' in Hindu society in the 1930s.

About the Author:

Mulk Raj Anand, one of the most highly regarded Indian novelists writing in English, was born in Peshawar in 1905. He was educated at the universities of Lahore, London and Cambridge, and lived in England for many years, finally settling in a village in Western India after the war. His main concern has always been for "the creatures in the lower depths of Indian society who once were men and women: the rejected, who had no way to articulate their anguish against the opressors." His novels of humanism have been trabnslated into several world languages.

The fiction-factions include Untouchable (1935), described by Martin Seymour-Smith as "one of the most eloquent and imaginative works to deal with this difficult and emotive subject," Coolie (1936), Two Leaves and a Bud (1937), The Village (1939), Across the Black Waters (1940), The Sword and the Sickle (1942), and the much-acclaimed Private Life of an Indian Prince (1953). His autobiographical novels, Seven Summers (1950), Morning Face (1968), which won the National Academy Award, Confession of a Lover (1972) and The Bubble (1988), reveal the story of his experiments with truth and the struggle of his various egos to attain a possible higher self.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Untouchable (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket