Untouchable / Mulk Raj Anand.
Material type: TextSeries: Penguin twentieth-century classicsPublication details: London, England ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin, 1986.Description: viii, 156 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 0140183957
- 934
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Tan Tao University Fiction | Fiction | 934 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | A-2012-0437 |
Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet none the less he is an outcast in India's caste system: an Untouchable. In deceptively simple prose this groundbreaking novel describes a day in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, as he searches for a meaning to the tragic existence he has been born into - and comes to an unexpected conclusion. Mulk Raj Anand poured a vitality, fire and richness of detail into his controversial work, which led him to be acclaimed as his country's Charles Dickens and one of the twentieth century's most important Indian writers.
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