Penguin India Publishes The Essential Ved Mehta

Penguin presents the rich and reflective The Essential Ved Mehta By Ved Mehta.

From the bestselling author of Face to Face, Daddyji and Portrait of India comes a brilliant anthology. Ved Mehta’s The Essential Ved Mehta is an authoritative and illuminating account of his work.

The Essential Ved Mehta is the definitive collection of the author’s work, containing excerpts from nearly all his writings, many of which first appeared in William Shawn’s New Yorker. It begins with his first book, the classic autobiography highlighting his blindness, Face to Face, and goes on to feature, among others, his iconic books about India and his great family saga Continents of Exile. Each entry comes with a reflection by Mehta. Authoritative and illuminating, The Essential Ved Mehta is not just an introduction to this seminal writer but also a passionate record of a writer looking back upon his own work.

From the book jacket:

“In his books about his family, his own life, India and a variety of other subjects, Ved Mehta has created a mini-universe that in its richness of fact and detail, and in its easy readability, at once educates, elevates and entertains, but most of all transports the reader to Mehta’s own universe.” — MINT