Accession number
PML 350059
Published
New York : Henry Holt & Co., 1997.
Credit line
Man Booker Prize Collection, purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund and the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.
Notes
Previously published by Vintage under the British title: The Vintage book of Indian writing, 1947-1997.
Introduction by Salman Rushdie.
Designed by Lucy Albanese.
Introduction by Salman Rushdie.
Designed by Lucy Albanese.
Description
xx, 553 p. ; 22 cm
Provenance
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.
Summary
Stories and excerpts of novels from India since the country attained its independence in 1947. The subjects range from religious strife, to the assault on the senses of the many people one is surrounded by.
Binding
Quarter black cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
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