Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 - 1997

The Indian subcontinent has produced some of the worlds greatest writers and a body of literature unsurpassed in its sustained imagination impassioned lyricism and sparkling tragi-comedy. Now Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West have collected together the finest Indian writing of the last fifty years. Published to coincide with the anniversary of Indias independence it is an anthology of extraordinary range and vigour as exciting and varied as the land that inspired it.Including works by:Mulk Raj AnandGita MehtaAnjana AppachanaVed Mehta Vikram ChandraRohinton MistryUpamanyu ChatterjeeR. K. NarayanAmit ChaudhuriJawaharlal NehruNirad C. ChaudhuriPadma PereraAnita DesaiSatyajit RayKiran DesaiArundhati RoyG. V. DesaniSalman RushdieAmitav GhoshNayantara SahgalGitha HariharanI. Allan SealyRuth Prawer JhabvalaVikram SethFirdaus KangaBapsi SidhwaMukul Kesavan Sara SuleriSaadat Hasan MantoShashi TharoorKamala Markandaya Ardashir Vakil Review Rushdie offers us a sweeping birds eye view of 50 years of good writing. He proves that there is an Indo-Anglian canon and as he reaches our own time he elects new contenders for future glory -- Aamer Hussein ―IndependentFor matters both literary and (in the broad sense) political one of the most informative as well as enjoyable [books about India] isThe Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-97... Rushdies fine introduction to this compendium of contemporary Indian prose...digresses fascinatingly on polylingualism identity and dislocation ―Independent on SundayThis is the most impressive regional anthology Ive seen for years. But then India is an awfully big region. With a population of nearly a billion you would expect some crackerjack writers in their midst. And here they are. -- Iain Sharp ―The Sunday Star-Times (Auckland) About the Author Salman Rushdie was born in 1947 and has lived in England since 1961. He is the author of six novels: Grimus Midnights Children which won the Booker Prize in 1981 and the James Tait Black Prize Shame winner of the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger The Satanic Verses which won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories which won the Writers Guild Award and The Moors Last Sigh which won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. He has also published a collection of short stories East West a book of reportage The Jaguar Smile a volume of essays Imaginary Homelands and a work of film criticism The Wizard of Oz. His most recent novel is The Ground Beneath Her Feet which was published in 1999.Salman Rushdie was awarded Germanys Author of the Year Award for his novel The Satanic Verses in 1989. In 1993 Midnights Children was voted the Booker of Bookers the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In the same year he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He is also Honorary Professor in the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books have been published in more than two dozen languages.