# Sound-Shadows of the New World

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- Authors: [Ved Mehta](https://www.bookquiver.com/ved-mehta)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2020-12-03

## Description

Book 5 in Ved Mehta's Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian family in the twentieth century. From 1930s India to 1950s Oxford and literary New York in the 1960s-80s, this is the story of the post-colonial twentieth century, as uniquely experienced and vividly recounted by Ved Mehta. In 1949, fifteen-year-old Ved Mehta -- blind since the age of four -- left his native India and travelled alone to a school for the blind in Arkansas, USA. For the next three years he studied with over a hundred blind or partially sighted children at the school. Here, he would learn how to deal with Western teachers, date girls, and begin to perceive objects by means of 'sound-shadows'. Sound-Shadows of the New World brilliantly traces the emigrant experience amid the difficult transition from adolescence into adulthood.

## Editions

### Sound-Shadows of the New World

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4150-493-2
- Published: 2020-12-03
- Language: en_GB