| In Light of India Contributor(s): Paz, Octavio (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156005786 ISBN-13: 9780156005784 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: For six years Octavio Paz served as Mexico's ambassador to India--an experience that forever changed his life. Now, in Paz's most personal work of prose to date, the Nobel Prize Laureate brings his poetic insight and voluminous knowledge to bear on a vast and extraordinary subject: the culture, landscape, and essence of India. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Travel | Asia - India & South Asia |
| Dewey: 954 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.40 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Ethnic Orientation - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "One of the most brilliant and original essayists in any language" (Washington Post Book World) reflects on the six years he spent in India as Mexican ambassador-and reveals how the people and culture of that extraordinary land changed his life. Translated by Eliot Weinberger. |
Contributor Bio(s): Paz, Octavio: - Octavio Paz was born in 1914 and died in 1998. The author of eighteen books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. |