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The Granta Book of India
Ian Jack
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Description for The Granta Book of India
Paperback. An anthology of classic Granta pieces on India. Editor(s): Jack, Ian. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DQ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 134 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
The Granta Book of India brings together, for the first time, evocative, personal and informative pieces from previous editions of Granta magazine on the experiences of Indian life, culture and politics, including extracts from the highly successful Granta 57: India! The Golden Jubilee. Included are: Suketu Mehta on Mumbai; Chitra Banerji's 'What Bengali Widows Cannot Eat'; Mark Tully on his childhood in Calcutta; Ian Jack's 'Unsteady People' - on unexpected parallels between Bihar and Britain; Urvashi Butalia on tracing her long-lost uncle; a poem by Salman Rushdie about the fatwa; Ramachandra Guha's 'What We Think of America'; Nirad Chaudhuri writing ... Read more
The Granta Book of India brings together, for the first time, evocative, personal and informative pieces from previous editions of Granta magazine on the experiences of Indian life, culture and politics, including extracts from the highly successful Granta 57: India! The Golden Jubilee. Included are: Suketu Mehta on Mumbai; Chitra Banerji's 'What Bengali Widows Cannot Eat'; Mark Tully on his childhood in Calcutta; Ian Jack's 'Unsteady People' - on unexpected parallels between Bihar and Britain; Urvashi Butalia on tracing her long-lost uncle; a poem by Salman Rushdie about the fatwa; Ramachandra Guha's 'What We Think of America'; Nirad Chaudhuri writing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862077843
SKU
V9781862077843
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99-95
About Ian Jack
Ian Jack edited Granta from 1995 to 2007, having previously edited the Independent on Sunday. He has written on many subjects, including the Titanic, Kathleen Ferrier, the Hatfield train crash and the three members of the IRA active-service unit who were killed on Gibraltar. He is the editor of The Granta Book of Reportage and The Granta Book of India, ... Read more
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