Ved Metha, Author, Ved Mehta, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-393-03544-5
Mehta, the well-known Indian-born writer, affectionately relives his undergraduate years at Oxford's Balliol College in an amusing, wonderfully observant, self-deprecating memoir. Despite his constant struggle to find his footing on the English...
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Ved Mehta, Author . Thunder's Mouth $24.95 (345p) ISBN 978-1-56025-321-1
In this excruciatingly honest autobiographical work, author Mehta conducts an exquisite exploration of his love life as a young man, attempting to focus an objective lens on the most subjective of matters. The volume, the ninth in Mehta's...
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Ved Mehta, Author . Thunder's Mouth/Nation $24.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-56025-528-4
In the 10th and penultimate installment of his Continents of Exile autobiographical series, Mehta (All for Love; Up at Oxford) deftly turns homebuilding into a metaphor for other struggles. Seeking acceptance, love, a home and a family, he evokes...
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Ved Mehta, Author . Nation $22.95 (190p) ISBN 978-1-56025-628-1
Imagine: you're a middle-aged adult and your elderly parent offers you a packet of love letters ("red letters") from an adulterous relationship that took place just before you were born. After you recover from the shock—you never...
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Ved Mehta, Author Yale University Press $21 (208p) ISBN 978-0-300-06858-0
Chronicle of India's recent tumultuous history. (Dec.)
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Ved Mehta, Author Overlook Press $35 (368p) ISBN 978-0-87951-876-9
A poignant tribute from a flawed but well-placed Boswell, Mehta's book revisits (through memories, letters and interviews) the career of William Shawn, who edited the New Yorker from 1951 to 1987. During his self-effacing stewardship, Shawn shifted...
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Ved Mehta, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-02225-4
In 1949, at age 15, Mehta left his native India to spend three years at the Arkansas School for the Blind. In this vivid memoir, written with great sensitivity and without self-pity, he describes the dilemmas of coping with blindness while adjusting
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Ved Mehta, Author W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (462p) ISBN 978-0-393-02632-0
This sixth volume of Mehta's lively, affecting autobiography covers his experiences at Pomona College, Calif., in the 1950s, when, despite his blindness, he tried to carry on the normal life of an undergraduate: joining a fraternity, bicycling,...
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Ved Mehta, Author Yale University Press $42.5 (208p) ISBN 978-0-300-06038-6
In a quietly devastating, gripping political chronicle based on his frequent trips to India between 1982 and 1994, Indian-born Mehta, a New Yorker staff writer, ruefully portrays a nation mired in corruption and intimidation at every level of...
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