| Chasing the Rainbow: Growing Up in an Indian Village Contributor(s): Das, Manoj (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198065213 ISBN-13: 9780198065210 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Biography & Autobiography - Literary Collections | Asian - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2010513611 |
| Series: Oxford India Paperbacks |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.45 lbs) 180 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of memoirs recounts the author's childhood experiences in the quiet and supine India of villages. The Indian village in the first half of the last century was not a fairy tale world, as numerous accounts of human misery set against its backdrop have testified over the years, but it was still a world where a child could run across a green meadow studded with palm trees, dreaming of catching the end of a huge rainbow spanning the sky. Set in Sankhari, the author's village by the sea in Orissa, the reminiscences are imbued with a childlike sense of wonder: the dreaded butcher thus turns out to be messenger from a goddess, while a princely exterior hides a hapless vagrant. Chasing the Rainbow is a homage to a way of life that was until recently so real. This book will not only appeal to readers nostalgic for a bygone world, but will also serve as an invaluable record of village life in early twentieth-century India. |