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Blind since the age of four, Ved Mehta led a lonely and turbulent childhood
in India until he was accepted to the Arkansas School for the Blind, to which
he flew alone at fifteen. America and the school changed his life, leading
to degrees at Oxford and Harvard Universities and a fruitful writing career.
Face to Face (1957), Mehta’s first book, is the author’s autobiography
touching upon childhood, blindness and remaking himself. It remains one
of his most beloved works.
Imprint: India Penguin
Published: Dec/2013
ISBN: 9780143420767
Length : 328 Pages
MRP : ₹499.00
Imprint: Penguin Audio
Published:
ISBN:
Imprint: India Penguin
Published: Dec/2013
ISBN: 9789351185727
Length : 328 Pages
MRP : ₹499.00
Blind since the age of four, Ved Mehta led a lonely and turbulent childhood
in India until he was accepted to the Arkansas School for the Blind, to which
he flew alone at fifteen. America and the school changed his life, leading
to degrees at Oxford and Harvard Universities and a fruitful writing career.
Face to Face (1957), Mehta’s first book, is the author’s autobiography
touching upon childhood, blindness and remaking himself. It remains one
of his most beloved works.
Ved Mehta is a journalist, novelist, and one of the most prolific memoirists of the twentieth century. Blind since the age of four, Mehta spent his early years in India, before first moving to America, where he studied at Harvard, and then to Britain, where he studied at Oxford. A MacArthur Prize fellow and member of the British Royal Society of Literature, he was a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine for over thirty years. His 27 books include the acclaimed multi-volume memoir Continents of Exile.