# The Red Letters

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- Authors: [Ved Mehta](https://www.bookquiver.com/ved-mehta)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2021-01-07

## Description

The last volume of 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. During the clamour of a New York dinner party, Mehta is startled to find his father crying on his mother's shoulders. This episode begins a painful and revealing voyage into his father's personal history. In stark prose, Mehta unravels a passionate, clandestine affair that bore quiet yet extraordinary consequences for himself and his family. Red Letters also serves as a brilliant exploration and a recreation of British India: its sights and sounds, its injustices and its secrecy.

## Editions

### The Red Letters

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4150-500-7
- Published: 2021-01-07
- Language: en_GB