# The Stolen Light

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

## Description

Book 6 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. The Stolen Light engages with the particular difficulties of Mehta's experience: he was blind in a college made for the seeing, he was an Indian in the United States, a Hindu in a Christian environment, a dark-skinned man surrounded by white people. With compelling honesty and humour, Mehta describes his struggles to live an ordinary university life - dating, riding a bicycle, keeping up with his studies - while dealing with incredible obstacles.

## Editions

### The Stolen Light

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4150-494-9
- Published: 2020-12-03
- Language: en_GB