Up at Oxford
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Continents of Exile: 7.
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Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Book 2 in Ved Mehta's Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian family in the twentieth century. From 1930s India to 1950s Oxford and literary New York in the 1960s-80s, this is the story of the post-colonial twentieth century, as uniquely experienced and vividly recounted by Ved Mehta.
After studying in the United States, Mehta - blind since childhood - achieves his dream of enrolling at the University of Oxford: a place that has consumed his imagination ever since he was a small boy growing up under the British Raj. In Up at Oxford, Mehta recalls the nuances of his conversations, the range of his youthful emotions, and the sounds, smells, and tastes of university life. Along the way he draws memorable portraits of, among others, novelists, poets, scholars, and peers.
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Imprint: Penguin Classics
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Published: 03/12/2020
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ISBN: 9780241504956
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Length: 208 Pages
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RRP: £10.99
Reviews
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An engaging memoir of life at Oxford University in the 50's, by the prolific Ved Mehta
Kirkus Reviews
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His fall into blindness had broken open his perception so that nothing escapes him . . . he has a clarity that is sometimes like clairvoyance
Peter Ackroyd
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Well-chosen details represent more than themselves... The trick is to choose the details, which Mehta does with consummate, sly skill
Michael Wood
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Intelligent, critically observing ... extraordinary
Janet Malcolm, in praise of Continents of Exile
