Daddyji [Paperback]

Ved Mehta (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1989

DADDYJI is Ved Mehta's autobiography dealing primarily with his father, Amolak Ram Mehta, senior member of the clan and a British-trained physician.

"The picture of Amolak Ram that emerges from this memoir is that of a remarkable man, one possessed of great courage and virtue. The book's value lies in the fact that Ved Mehta translates an individual experience into one that is universal." (Saturday Review)

"Delightful...conceived as a series of cameos of village and urban family life from the end of the last century to the end of the first 40 years of this, DADDYJI is intimate, personal, as well as a history of modern India in the making." (The Times, London)

--This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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5 1-hour cassettes --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

About the Author

Ved Mehta was born in 1934 and has lived in the United States and Britain since 1949; he became an American citizen in 1975. When he was nearly four, an attack of meningitis left him permanently blind, and he was educated at the Arkanas School for the Blind, and then at Pomona College, Balliol College, Oxford, and Harvard University. He has written twenty-six books, along with hundreds of articles and short stories, and was a staff writer at The New Yorker between 1961 and 1994. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 195 pages
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc (February 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393305627
• ISBN-13: 978-0393305623
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,654,936 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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