Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate

by Amitava Kumar and Alex Brown

For more than a generation, Indian writers in English have won praise in the West. The roll call of Indian-born writers is startling: Rushdie, Mukerjee, Mehta, Ghosh, Naipaul, Kureishi, Narayan, Mistry, among many others.
Amitava Kumar, himself an Indian writer now 'away' in America, is editing a broad anthology of work by Indian writers whose lives and literary identities have been formed by their experiences in some form of exile. Spanning writing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415968976
• ISBN13: 9780415968973
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"